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Project code: 6-03-070

The linguistic prehistory of Croatia within the Adriatic Area

Main researcher: KRIŽMAN, MATE (23720)

Assistants

MATASOVIĆ, RANKO (180375)

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 06/01/91. to 06/01/93.

Papers on project (total): 0

Institution name: Filozofski fakultet - Humanističke znanosti, Zagreb (130)
Department/Institute: Department of General Linguistics and Oriental Studies The Chair of Indo-European linguistics
Address: Đ. Salaja 3
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

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Summary: In ancient Greek and Latin records and in the ancient epitaphs and other inscriptions, the toponomastic and the anthroponomastic elements connected with the area of contemporary Croatia and the neighboring regions are surveyed and the elements of the geographic distribution of the single names are established. These names can conditionally be considered as remains of the languages spoken in the respective areas.

Keywords: Illyrians, substrate linguistics, fragmentary recorded languages, toponomastics, anthroponymy, onomastic area, Illyrology, Illyristics

Research goals: To establish which languages, and, if possible, languages of which kind, were spoken in our country and the neighbouring areas before their Romanization.

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