Tag: History of orthography

ÉVA KOVÁCS, The Census of the Abbey of Tihany as a source for historical toponomastics. 2015.

By Kovács, Éva, , , , , , ,

After thoroughly studying the 1211 land survey of the Abbey of Tihany, the author decided to continue her work along the general lines of Hungarian historical linguistic research and disclose even more exact information about the Hungarian language and its users of the decades following the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. This linguistic record…

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MELINDA SZŐKE, Historical linguistic analysis of the founding charter of the Abbey of Garamszentbenedek. 2015.

By Szőke, Melinda, , , , , , ,

The charters containing anthroponyms and toponyms in Hungarian are the most important sources of the early history of the Hungarian language. So far, special attention has been paid to genuine charters only. Considering, however, the availability of sources from the early period of Hungarian literacy, other source types (copies or even fakes) should also be…

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