A SUPPLEMENT TO THE STUDY OF THE PERSONAL NAMES OF THE TROGIR INHABITANS IN 17th AND 18th CENTURIES

Trogirske Matične knjige rođenih od 16. i umrlih od 17. stoljeća otkrivaju upotrebu hrvatskog oblika osobnih imena, ali pisana talijanskim pravopisom, što je vrlo rijetko u drugim dalmatinskim gradovima. Ako usporedimo ovaj oblik pisanja osobnih imena s najstarijim trogirskim pisanim izvorima uočit ćemo da su se ona u istom obliku upotrebljavala u Trogiru gotovo četiri stoljeća. Tek će pri pokušaju asimilacije življa na istočnoj jadranskoj obali početkom 18. stoljeća mletačke vlasti odrediti da se imena pišu u izvornom talijanskom obliku, što će potrajati sve do sedamdesetih godina 19. stoljeća kad se Matične knjige počinju pisati hrvatskim jezikom.The Trogir registers of births from 16th century and deaths from 17th century reveal that the Croatian proper names were written using the Italian orthography, which was rather infrequent in other Dalmatian towns. When this form of spelling the proper names is compared with the oldesty written sources in Trogir it is evident that it was used there for almost four centuries. Only when it was tried to assimilate the inhabitansts on the eastern Adriatic coast by the beginning of 18th century the Venetian rule decreed that the names be spelt in the original Italian form. This decree remained valid until the seventies of 19th century when the Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths started to be spelt in the Croatian language