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Pannonian Slavic
Greenberg, Marc
Greenberg, Marc
Abstract
The entry describes the history and state of research on the problem of Pannonian Slavic, the variety or varieties of Slavic spoken in the Carpatho-Danubian basin prior to and after the arrival of the Magyars, speakers of Hungarian, in the 9th century CE. The issue is also discussed in connection with the brief period in which Slavic literacy had been introduced in the second half of the 9th century with the activity of Methodius under the patronage of Kocel, the ruler of the Slavs in Pannonia inferior. The Slavic speech community in the Carpatho-Danubian region yielded to language shift in favor of Hungarian, which, when completed in the following century or so, resulted in a clearer division between today’s West and South Slavic languages. In terms of method, Pannonian Slavic can be reconstructed indirectly through borrowings into Hungarian as well as through comparative analysis of the living “circum-Pannonian” varieties of Slavic, with studies focusing more on form in some cases and lexicon in others. The interpretation of the facts remains heterogeneous, with studies pointing to different solutions.
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2025
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Brill
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historical linguistics, Hungarian-Slavic linguistic contact, loanwords, dialectology, medieval Slavic
Citation
Greenberg, Marc L. 2025. Pannonian Slavic. In: Marc L. Greenberg, Lenore A. Grenoble, eds. Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_036363