Slavic Microlinguistics and Slavic Microphilology

Slavic literary microlanguages are a category that has been developed since the 1970s. Initially, we identified 12 microlanguages and attempts to create some other microlanguages. However, as the problem has been studied, we can identify approximately twenty micro-languages or attempts to create them. The area principle combined with ethno-linguo-genetic and literary-linguistic ones brought about the following classification: 1) autonomous (Upper and Lower Sorbian, Kashubian); 2) island (Yugoslavian-Rusinian, Burgenland Croatian, Resian dialect, etc.); 3) peripheral-island (Carpathian Rusin (Rusyn), Aegean-Macedonian, Pomak, etc.); 4) peripheral, or regional (Chakavian, Kajkavian, Prekmurje Slovene, etc.). They all originated in different periods of history, and not all of them developed in microphilology (the linguistic-literary aspect is characteristic of Sorbian, Yugoslavo-Rusin, Kashubian, Burgenland Croatian and some other microlanguages). The one-sidedness of the functional development will accompany their further development. However, in general, this process is developing, so that in the near future we will witness the replenishment of this category with new precedents.

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