The phonological characteristics of today’s speech in Kastav

Abstract

The work presents phonological (linguistic) characteristics of local speech of Kastav. The analysis contains inventory, distribution and origin of prosody, vocalism and consonants. As a new classification confirms, the speech of Kastav belongs to the northeast istrian ekavian čakavian dialect. Despite some newer tendencies in phonology, the local speech of Kastav keeps its ancient origins and it belongs to native, indigenous idioms of that linguistic area.

Keywords

• Kastav
• phonology
• ekavian čakavian dialect