CROATIAN MICROTOPONYMY IN HUNGARY – IN POMURJE, PODRAVINA, AND OF THE BURGENLAND KAJKAVIANS

Sa？etak This is a preview to a very extensive and multi-layered matter. Several works should be elaborated on this subject, best of all covered by at least one to two dissertations. It is about the Croatian microtoponymy in Hungary, i.e. in Pomurje (Zala County), in Podravina (Somogy County), and the microtoponymy of the Burgenland Kajkavian-speaking inhabitants living by the Neusiedler/Fert？ tó Lake, and in northwest Hungary - Gy？r-Moson-Sopron County. There are some ten villages in Pomurje where in some the majority have Croatian names, and the Croatian speeches fall into the Me？imurean dialect, i.e. into the lower (eastern) subdialect. There are two villages by the Austrian border where Kajkavian is spoken (Homok/Umok and Vede？in/Hede？in), belonging to the Croatian Burgenland circle. Regardless of descent, it has been some time now that Iv？i？ had demonstrated the great similarity between these tongues in comparison to the Me？imurean ones. This is the Kajkavian Croatian microtoponymy in Hungary. There is some in Podravina as well, where it is mainly Shtokavian. When the mycrotoponymy of some Podravlje villages is analysed, all should be considered, regardless of whether it is Kajkavian or Shtokavian