Српски периферни говори – међујезички утицаји и балканистички процеси

This article presents one segment of the Balkan patchwork of ethnic groups, cultures and languages in the form of nine indications of Serbian folk sub-dialects from the language borderline in two regions with ancient, intense contacts between Slavic and non-Slavic ethnic groups, languages and cultures. Bearing in mind the fact that all the most significant features of the presented sub-dialects correspond with the “mother dialectic type”, departures from the norm result from the sub-dialects’ geographical and linguistic borderline locations i.e. a direct foreign influence is at play. The non-Slavic languages (Romanian and Albanian) have exerted a strong impact on the Serbian folk sub-dialects in the borderline regions. Consequently, the sub-dialects as we know them today do not reflect the developmental processes taking place in central Serbian sub-dialects, a phenomenon which is even more remarkable in the sub-dialects of the borderline enclaves