Adalék a csángók kun eredetelméletének kritikájához

Németh, Michał (2014) Adalék a csángók kun eredetelméletének kritikájához. NYELVTUDOMÁNYI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 110. pp. 183-190. ISSN 0029-6791 (print); 2060-7644 (online)

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Abstract

In the present paper an early article of Munkácsi Bernát (1902) is revisited in which he argued in favour of treating the south-western Karaim dealveolarisation process as a proof of an alleged alternation of alveolar and dental affricates and fricatives in the language of the Codex Cumanicus. As a next step, Munkácsi (1902) argued that this particular feature is reflected in the language of Csángós (in some varieties of which š, ž is replaced with s, z, respectively), which served, in turn, as an argument in favour of their alleged Cuman origin. And even though Munkácsi’s orthographic arguments concerning such a change in the Codex Cumanicus were convincingly rejected by Melich (1903), Grønbech (1942), and Räsänen (1949), it has been never proved that the Karaim dealveolarisation is not an inherited feature. In this article, therefore, the latest philological researches of Halych Karaim manuscripts from the 18th and the 19th century are presented from which it clearly transpires that at least the š > s process took place in Karaim in the last decades of the 18th century, so it has nothing in common either with the language of Codex Cumanicus or with the Hungarian dialect of Csángós.

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