Surnames – sources of dialectal knowledge

Sa？etak The examples that the author has selected from the Hrvatski prezimenik, a handbook of Croatian surnames compiled by Franjo Maleti？ and Petar ？imunovi？, show the presence of dialectal elements in the corpus of Croatian surnames. She emphasizes the importance of the phonological level in the study of surname forms, as well as the unique relationship of standard language norms towards surnames and all names in general