Dva pisma turskog sultana Murata II Dubrovniku

Abstract

This paper brings the texts of two letters of the Turkish Sultan Murad II to Dubrovnik, from editions dating from the first half of the 20th century, as well as a summary of their most important lingual characteristics from the perspective of historical dialectology. The most important results of research could be reduced to these: 1) The letters were written in Old Serbian, with minimal traces of the Serbo-Slavic language; 2) the old Serbian language of these letters was based on the south-eastern Serbian vernacular from the first half of the 15th century; 3) several conspicuous phonetic and morphological characteristics point to the area around the Serbo-Macedonian border as the dialectological source of the letters' scribe.