Slavonic-Serbian

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Not to be confused with Church Slavonic.
"Slavo-Serbian" redirects here. For the colony, see Slavo-Serbia.
Slavonic-Serbian
Славено-сербскiй
Cover of the 1768 edition of the Slavenoserbskij Magazin
RegionVojvodina
Era18th to 19th century 
Early form
Old Cyrillic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
South Slavic languages and dialects
Western South Slavic
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      • Ikavian
    Eastern South Slavic
    Transitional dialects
    Alphabets
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    Banat Bulgarian alphabet
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    Slavonic-Serbian (славяносербскій, slavjanoserbskij), Slavo-Serbian, or Slaveno-Serbian (славено-сербскiй, slaveno-serbskij;

    Shtokavian dialect), and Church Slavonic of the Serbian recension, with varying sources and differing attempts at standardisation.[1]

    History

    At the beginning of the 18th century, the literary language of the Serbs was the Serbian recension of

    liturgical books, and the Serbian schools were in need of textbooks. The Habsburg court, however, did not allow the Serbs to establish their printing presses. The Serbian Church and schools received ample help in books and teachers from the Russian Empire. By the mid-18th century, Serbo-Slavonic had been mostly replaced with Russo-Slavonic (Russian recension of Church Slavonic) as the principal literary language of the Serbs.[4][5]

    Around that time, laymen became more numerous and notable than monks and priests among active Serbian writers. The secular writers wanted their works to be closer to the general Serbian readership, but at the same time, most of them regarded Church Slavonic as more prestigious and elevated than the popular Serbian language. Church Slavonic was also identified with the Proto-Slavic language, and its use in literature was seen as the continuation of an ancient tradition. The writers began blending Russo-Slavonic, vernacular Serbian, and Russian, and the resulting mixed language is called Slavonic-Serbian. The first printed work in Slavonic-Serbian appeared in 1768, written by Zaharije Orfelin. Before that, a German–Slavonic-Serbian dictionary was composed in the 1730s. The blended language became dominant in secular Serbian literature and publications during the 1780s and 1790s.[6] At the beginning of the 19th century, it was severely attacked by Vuk Karadžić and his followers, whose reformatory efforts formed modern literary Serbian based on the popular language.[7] The last notable work in Slavonic-Serbian was published in 1825.[8]

    Slavonic-Serbian was used in literary works, including prose and poetry, school textbooks, philological and theological works,

    headwords in each direction, was composed by adapting a German–Russian dictionary into Slavonic-Serbian.[10]

    Characteristics

    Slavonic-Serbian texts exhibit

    stems or affixes could be either predominantly Serbian, or predominantly Russo-Slavonic, or combined in any other ratio. A sentence in the newspapers Slaveno-serbskija vědomosti, written by Stefan Novaković, is an example of elements from both languages being equally used, regarding both stems and affixes:[7]

    Slavonic-Serbian Transliteration Translation
    Честь имамъ всѣмъ Высокопочитаемымъ Читателемъ обявити, да безъ сваке сумнѣ намѣренъ есамъ, ону достохвалну и цѣлому Сербскому Роду преполезну ИСТОРИЮ СЕРБСКУ, от коесамъ цѣло оглавленïе давно сообщïо, печатати. Čest' imam vsěm Vysokopočitaemym Čitatelem objaviti, da bez svake sumně naměren esam, onu dostohvalnu i cělomu Serbskomu Rodu prepoleznu ISTORIJU SERBSKU, ot koesam cělo oglavlenie davno soobštio, pečatati. I have the honour to announce to all Revered Readers that I am, without any doubt, intent on printing that praiseworthy and to all Serbian People valuable SERBIAN HISTORY, a whole chapter of which I have published long ago.
    Modern Serbian Transliteration
    Част имам објавити свим Високопоштованим Читаоцима да сам без сваке сумње намерен штампати ону доста хваљену и целоме Српском Роду прекорисну ИСТОРИЈУ СРПСКУ, од које сам цело поглавље давно саопштио. Čast imam objaviti svim Visokopoštovanim Čitaocima da sam bez svake sumnje nameren štampati onu dosta hvaljenu i celome Srpskom Rodu prekorisnu ISTORIJU SRPSKU, od koje sam celo poglavlje davno saopštio.

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Mladenović, Aleksandar (1973). "Tipovi knjizevnog jezika Srba u 18. veku". Novi Sad.
    2. ^ Albin 1970, p. 484
    3. ^ Ivić 1998, pp. 105–6
    4. ^ Ivić 1998, pp. 116–19
    5. ^ Paxton 1981, pp. 107–9
    6. ^ a b Ivić 1998, pp. 129–33
    7. ^ a b Albin 1970, pp. 489–91
    8. ^ Ivić 1998, p. 194
    9. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
      , 1999–2009
    10. ^ Gudkov 1993, pp. 79–81
    11. ^ Ivić 1998, pp. 134–35
    12. ^ Ivanova 2010, p. 259

    References

    External links

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