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  Croatian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Croatian is based on the Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet.
Monumental grammar authored by pre-eminent fin de siècle Croatian linguist Tomislav Maretić (Grammar and stylistics of Croatian or Serbian language) and dictionary by Broz and Iveković (Croatian dictionary) temporarily fixed the elastic (grammatically, syntactically, lexically) standard of this hybrid language.
Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_language   (3493 words)

  
 Croatian-language grammar books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While Croatian is genetically the same as Serbian and Bosnian, and some of the books mentioned below also apply to them, this chronology of philological heritage is specific to Croatian.
An Italian grammar, written in the language which is the ancestor of Croatian (also containing a dictionary).
The grammar points to the supra-regional character of the neo—Štokavian dialect which replaced the former Čakavian and Štokavian literary idioms in southern provinces.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian-language_grammar_books   (674 words)

  
 List of books on Croatian grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vinko Pacel, Slovnica jezika Hrvatskoga ili Srbskoga (A grammar of the Croatian or Serbian language), Zagreb.
Vatroslav Jagić, Gramatika jezika hervackoga (A grammar of the Croatian language), Zagreb.
Tomo Maretić, Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskog jezika (Grammar and stylistics of the Croatian or Serbian language).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_grammars   (778 words)

  
 Croatian language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Croatian language is a (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language of the western group of South (A branch of the Indo European family of language) Slavic languages which is used primarily by the (A member of the Slavic people living in Croatia) Croats.
Writers of early Croatian (A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience) religious (Literature in metrical form) poetry (začinjavci), translators and editors gradually introduced the vernacular into their works.
There isn't a single official definition of Croatian, but there exists an Institute for Croatian language and linguistics with a (Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient) prescription department.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Cr/Croatian_language.htm   (3096 words)

  
 Croatian linguistic purism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Croatian tradition of neologisms and linguistic purism goes back to the earliest documents of literacy (11th to 12th century), but it was in the Renaissance Croatian literature that this characteristic has become dominant.
This tradition of Croatian neologisms continued uninterruptedly in next centuries and is recorded in numerous Croatian dictionaries until the Illyrian movement in the 19th century when it reached the peak in works of one of the most prominent Croatian philologists, Bogoslav Sulek (born and raised in Slovakia).
No Croatian dictionaries or Croatian grammars was published during this period, because of Croatian linguists opposition.
www.theezine.net /c/croatian-linguistic-purism.html   (904 words)

  
 Croats at European universities in Middle Ages, Latinists, Encyclopaedists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In Croatian: Jerolim je nass Dalmatin, on je dika, posstenje i slava i svitla kruna hrvatskoga jezika.
As a young Croatian philosopher, at the age of 24 he was appointed to be a professor of Hebrew and Greek at the University of Wittenberg, the center of Protestantism.
Josip Marinovic (1741 - 1801), was a Jesuit born in Perast - Kotor (in Boka kotorska, annexed to Montenegro in 1945), professor of theology in Venice.
www.hr /darko/etf/lat.html   (10825 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Serbo-Croatian (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
Although it is actually one language, Serbo-Croatian is designated as Serbian when spoken by Serbs (mostly belonging to the Orthodox Eastern Church) and written in a form of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as Croatian when spoken by Croats (mostly Roman Catholics) and written in a modified version of the Roman alphabet.
This divergence in writing is the principal difference between the Serbian and Croatian versions of Serbo-Croatian.
See grammars by M. Partridge (1964) and O. Grozdic (1969).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SerboCro.html   (396 words)

  
 Culture > CROATIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
Croatian dialects are, roughly, divided in three groups named after the dialectal word for interrogatory pronoun which is in Latin «quid» or in English «what»: ča-Čakavian (chakavian), što-Štokavian (shtokavian) and kaj-Kajkavian (kaykavian).
Karadžić's work was the revolution for Serbs; yet his influence on Croatian language was only one of the reforms, mostly in some aspects of grammar and orthography since the majority of his innovations had been present in Croatian literary and linguistic corpora for centuries.
Croatian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology vs. Serbian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/croatian_language.html   (4338 words)

  
 Croatian Translation - Translate Croatian Language Translator
Monumental grammar authored by pre-eminent fin de si cle Croatian linguist Tomislav Maretić (Grammar and stylistics of Croatian or Serbian language) and dictionary by Broz and Iveković (Croatian dictionary) temporarily fixed the elastic (grammatically, syntactically, lexically) standard of this hybrid language.
Serbian and Croatian have had a radically different past of almost four hundred years and only a few decades of moderately peaceful convergence—some believed that it was inevitable that they should diverge, especially when political pressures were applied to forge them into one language, which both parties claimed was based on the other language.
Eighteen Croatian scholarly institutions and cultural organizations dealing with language and literature, including foremost Croatian writers and linguists like Miroslav Krleža who was the head of the Lexicographic Institute, issued the "Declaration Concerning the Name and the Status of the Croatian Literary Language".
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/croatian.shtml   (1847 words)

  
 Kajkavian dialect - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kajkavian (kajkavski) dialect is one of the three dialects of Croatian language.
Kajkavian is not only a folk dialect, but has, in the course of history of Croatian language, been the written language (along with the corpus written in Chakavian and Shtokavian).
Kajkavian lexical treasure is being published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in "Rječnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnoga jezika"/Dictionary of Croatian kajkavian literary language, 8 volumes (1999).
www.iridis.com /Kajkavian_dialect   (665 words)

  
 Croatian language
The Vinodol Codex, 1288 Istrian land survey, 1275 Also, during the 13th century Croatian vernacular texts began to appear, the most important among them being "Istrian land survey", 1275 and "The Vinodol Codex", 1288., both in the Čakavian dialect.
Vatican Croatian Prayer Book Writers of early Croatian religious poetry (''začinjavci''), translators and editors gradually introduced the vernacular into their works.
Bartul Kašić's manuscript Bible translation The standardization of Croatian language can be traced back to the first Croatian dictionary (Faust Vrančić: Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum—Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmatiae et Ungaricae, Venice 1595) and first Croatian grammar (Bartul Kašić: Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo, Rome 1604).
www.datamass.net /cr/croatian-language.html   (2642 words)

  
 Institute of Linguistics Homepage
Croatian and English represented languages belonging to different families of the Indoeuropean group, and by contrasting them differences can be determined, but at the same time principles that go beyond language specific analysis appear.
As far as the general theory of grammar is concerned there are different approaches which in principal do not enable the elaboration of a gramamr of a language.
The result of the research would be the elaboration and publication of two grammars: the Croatian grammar with special reference to French and the French grammar with special reference to Croatian.
www.ffzg.hr /zzl   (2124 words)

  
 History of Croatian Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ignacije Szentmartony (1718-1793) was a Croatian Jesuit born in Croatian north (Kotoriba in Medjimurje), of a Croat mother and Hungarian father.
Danilo Blanusa (1903-1987), Croatian mathematician, professor at the University of Zagreb, was born in Osijek.
Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003), outstanding Croatian theoretical physicist, was born in Craiova, Romania (his mother was Romanian of Polish descent, and his father was Croatian).
www.hr /darko/etf/et22.html   (11594 words)

  
 CROATIANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Croatians hold Brazil in Split - Croatia holds world champions Brazil to 1-1 draw / Associated Press Posted: 1 hour ago SPLIT, Croatia (AP) - Ricardinho scored from a free kick outside the box to help Brazil earn a 1-1 draw with Croatia in a friendly Wednesday..
Owners of seized Croatian ship threaten legal action - on the orders of prosecutors, who accused the Croatians of using the vessel to transport illegal logs The Associated Press, correcting early reports that 25 Croatians were on board.
That could be the motto for retiring Delaware Superior Court Judge Richard S. Peace Accords settled that war among the Serbs, Croatians and Bosnians, organized-crime factions such as the Russian.
www.news-olympics.com /Croatians   (404 words)

  
 The Museum of Human Language
Most of the vocabulary and some of the grammar of pidgins come from their superstrate languages.
Usually some of the grammar of the substrate language is incorporated into the developing pidgin.
In grammar, for instance, there are so-called “left-branching” and “right-branching” languages.
www.geocities.com /agihard/mohl/mohl_languages.html   (3867 words)

  
 Computational Grammars from Text Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The use of a native speaker informant became both more vital in terms of the more rapid development of Serbo-Croatian resources, and yet less possible, due to the lower budget figures for research assistants.
The results of these searches was a considerable catalog of hard-copy grammars and dictionaries, a small corpus of Serbian literature on-line, and leads towards an on-line Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian-English set of bilingual dictionaries.
Wanying Jin also used hard-copy grammars and dictionaries to begin preparations of lists of endings for various grammatical categories.
crl.nmsu.edu /Research/Projects/compgram   (930 words)

  
 Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian comprises several dialects, one of which (Stokavian) has given rise to modern standard Serbian, which is spoken mainly in Serbia and written mainly in a form of the Cyrillic alphabet, and modern standard Croatian, which is spoken mainly in Croatia written in a modified version of the Roman alphabet.
The other dialects are mainly found in parts of Croatia and Bosnia, and the predominant pre-1990s dialect in Bosnia and in Montenegro was the same as that of modern standard Croatian.
The tendency now is to speak of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages, though those tongues remain largely mutually intelligible, a hallmark of dialects.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0844480.html   (491 words)

  
 Croatian language Details, Meaning Croatian language Article and Explanation Guide
Croatian language Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
The final obstacle to the unified Croatian literary language (based on celebrated vernacular Croatian Troubadour, Renaissance and Baroque (acronym TRB) literature (ca.
1670) from Dalmatia, Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska was surmounted by Croatian national awakener Ljudevit Gaj's standardization of Latin scriptory norm in 1830-50s.
www.e-paranoids.com /c/cr/croatian_language.html   (2552 words)

  
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