The Significance of the Družba kraljevih vrat Manuscript of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century for the History of the Slovene Language

Abstract

The contribution is the second part of the presentation of the heterogeneous manuscript titled Družba Kraljevih vrat, which demonstrates a diverse linguistic identity as well as a personal version of the alphabet. The manuscript was written prior to the unification of the common Slovenian literary language and is composed in the Central Slovenian (Carniola) literary language variant from the first half of the 19th century. It demonstrates rare dialectal remains of Lower Carniola (Dolenjska) from the older Central Slovenian literary norm (more frequent in the cover side letter) and more notable regional elements from the Upper Carniola (Gorenjska) dialect. There is a prevalence of syntactic particularities linked to the French prototext, with typical infinitive and passive participle semi-clauses, and a prevalence of style that is subordinate to the polemic content, with expressive lexicon and intertextual arguments.