Magyar neve? Szlovákiai magyar helységnevek standardizációs problémái
Date: 2007
Subject: helységnév
kisebbségi magyar
Szlovákia
határtalanítás
névváltozás
névváltoztatás
Kárpát-medence
névrendezés
névpolitika
kisebbségi magyar
Szlovákia
határtalanítás
névváltozás
névváltoztatás
Kárpát-medence
névrendezés
névpolitika
Abstract:
GIZELLA SZABÓMIHÁLY, Standardization of Hungarian settlement names
in Slovakia //
There are many settlements inhabited by Hungarians that were annexed after the First World
War to Czechoslovakia, later to Slovakia. The names of these settlements were changed many
times in the previous years. Their last standardization took place in 1994, when the Hungarian
names of circa 500 settlements were established (next to the official Slovakian names). Out of
these names approximately 100 are different from the relevant name forms established by the last
Hungarian standardization (1913). As a result, in Hungarian texts published in Slovakia the name
of a settlement may occur in two (sometimes three) different forms. The situation is somewhat
similar in all countries bordering Hungary where there are Hungarian-inhabited areas that once
belonged to the Hungarian Kingdom. Therefore, there is a need for general standardization of
Hungarian settlement names including all parties concerned, the prerequisite of which is to clarify
the principles to be adopted.