Effects of Language Contact as a Source of (Non)Information: The Historical Reconstruction of Burgenland Kajkavian

Abstract

In the Austrian province of Burgenland and adjoining areas in Austria, Hungary and Slovakia there are approximately 80 villages where varieties of Croatian are spoken. The ancestors of this Croatian-speaking population for the most part settled there in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Their original dwelling-places were those parts of Croatia and Slavonia that at that period suffered from Ottoman attacks.