METRIC BOOKS OF THE XVIII CENTURY AS INDICATORS OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIO-CULTURAL BOUNDARIES

Journal section: Research articles
Language: Ukrainian

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37919/3083-6212.2024.1.114-127

Arsen ZINCHENKO

Doctor of Historical Sciences (Dr. Hab. in History), Professor, Researcher of Municipal enterprise «Сenter for Vinnytsia history» (Vinnytsia, Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-8870
e-mail: arsen@zinchenko.eu

The article analyzes the linguistic material of entries in the metrical books of the Ruthenian parishes of the city of Vinnytsia in the middle of the second half of the 18^th century, in particular, the layers of the living language of the Bratslav region, signs of the linguistic business culture of that time and the socio-cultural, primarily linguistic, Ruthenian-Polish borderland.

Keywords: metrical books, Bratslavshchyna, visitations, dating, Old Ukrainian language.

LEGENG

ЦППБ — Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Vinnytsia. Metric books. 1748–1795 (in Old Ukrainian).
ЦСБКД — Church of Saints Kuzma and Demyan of the Silverless in Vinnytsia. Metric books. 1745–1806 (in Old Ukrainian).
ЦСМГ — Church of the Holy Martyr George of Vinnytsia Old Farms. Metric books. 1753–1795. CDTAK, f. 224, Op. 2, spr. 165 (in Old Ukrainian).

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