Τα γλωσσικά ιδιώματα του νομού Κοζάνης ως βόρεια και οι κυριότερες ιδιορρυθμίες τους

Abstract

It is noted initially that the present linguistic idioms of the main urban centres, as well as those of many villages in the nome of Kozani, whose population does not result from the recent displacement populations, form part of the so-called northern neohellenic idioms. These have two main phonetic characteristic points: 1) the change of the atonic e (e, at) in i and ο (ο, ω) in ου. It is a law which is strictly applied ceaselessly since approximately the 3 C. until today, and 2) the discarding of the atonic i (ι, η, υ, ει, οι) and ου. Here the law is not strict. Sometimes the discarding can be avoided and sometimes are discarded post-occuring i and ου. And it is exactly here that can be found part of the reason of the peculiarities in those idioms. Another reason naturally is the local life of the population: the use of every day spoken language in the —different in every idiom— folklore, the analogy, the comparison, the local vocabulary etc. The same reasons are valid generally for the other northern neohellenic idioms and also in the dialects and idioms of other regions.

From this point of view the idioms of the following places are succinctly examined with typical examples: Velvendos, Vlasti (Blatsiou) of Katafygio, Kozani, Servia and Siatista.