SPLIT SPLIT, Dec 25 (Hina) - A book on the Croatian Cyrillic script in central Dalmatia by Benedikta Zelic Bucan was presented in Split last Monday. The head of the State Archive in Split, Natasa Bajic Zarko, who presented the book,
entitled "The Bosnian or Croatian Cyrillic Script in Central Dalmatia", said the Croatian Cyrillic script had been claimed by almost all Serbian linguists and historians. However, we, too, have contributed to that because we often avoided even mentioning the word Cyrillic. Nevertheless, the Croatian Cyrillic script is our heritage, in which the well-known Statute of Poljica and other historical literary and legal texts were written, she said. The book can serve as the elementary reader for those who want to study this script, said Father Slavko Kovacic. The Croatian Cyrillic script was deeply rooted in the Croatian tradition until the Latin script pushed it out of use, although a
SPLIT, Dec 25 (Hina) - A book on the Croatian Cyrillic script in
central Dalmatia by Benedikta Zelic Bucan was presented in Split
last Monday.
The head of the State Archive in Split, Natasa Bajic Zarko, who
presented the book, entitled "The Bosnian or Croatian Cyrillic
Script in Central Dalmatia", said the Croatian Cyrillic script had
been claimed by almost all Serbian linguists and historians.
However, we, too, have contributed to that because we often avoided
even mentioning the word Cyrillic. Nevertheless, the Croatian
Cyrillic script is our heritage, in which the well-known Statute of
Poljica and other historical literary and legal texts were written,
she said.
The book can serve as the elementary reader for those who want to
study this script, said Father Slavko Kovacic. The Croatian
Cyrillic script was deeply rooted in the Croatian tradition until
the Latin script pushed it out of use, although a decade ago there
were people in the Dalmatian hinterland who could easily use the
Cyrillic script, he said.
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