OSIJEK, Sept 15 (Hina) - Participants in the Second Croatian Congress of Slavists, which continued on Wednesday at Osijek's Faculty of Pedagogy, today discussed the topic called "The four centuries of Croatian linguistics". Vladimir
Horvat delivered a lecture about the establishment of an academy of the Croatian language within the Roman course back in 1599. The academy, which was the official institution for studying and teaching Croatian, was founded in late 1599 within the Roman course by Claudio Aquaviva, the head of the Society of Jesus. Aquaviva instructed the Croatian priest Bartol Kasic to start teaching Croatian and compiling the first Croatian grammar. This was, Horvat claims, the official scientific beginning of Croatian linguistics. Aquaviva gave Kasic "The Dictionary of the Five Most Noble European Languages" by Faust Vrancic. On the basis of the Croatian column, Kasic
OSIJEK, Sept 15 (Hina) - Participants in the Second Croatian
Congress of Slavists, which continued on Wednesday at Osijek's
Faculty of Pedagogy, today discussed the topic called "The four
centuries of Croatian linguistics".
Vladimir Horvat delivered a lecture about the establishment of an
academy of the Croatian language within the Roman course back in
1599.
The academy, which was the official institution for studying and
teaching Croatian, was founded in late 1599 within the Roman course
by Claudio Aquaviva, the head of the Society of Jesus. Aquaviva
instructed the Croatian priest Bartol Kasic to start teaching
Croatian and compiling the first Croatian grammar. This was, Horvat
claims, the official scientific beginning of Croatian
linguistics.
Aquaviva gave Kasic "The Dictionary of the Five Most Noble European
Languages" by Faust Vrancic. On the basis of the Croatian column,
Kasic made the first alphabetical, ie. systematic list of Croatian
words and from the Italian column he took Italian words. Leaving out
Vrancic's archaisms and adding some 700 of his own words, Kasic
compiled the first Croatian-Italian dictionary.
Speaking in terms of history, the Croat people was the first Slavic
people to be given an academy of its own language in Rome, Horvat
said.
He added some Slavists believed the publishing of the five-language
dictionary by Faust Vrancic was the beginning of the
standardisation of the Croatian language. Horvat said he believed
the forerunner of the standardisation of Croatian was Bartol
Kasic.
Horvat also spoke about the claims of some Serb authors that Croats
had taken over the Serbian language from Vuk Karadzic only to name
it Croatian. In the work "Slovo o srpskom jeziku" (A Word About the
Serbian Language), published in 1998, this fallacy was translated
into five languages and published in 300,000 copies. Horvat
recalled that Bartol Kasic had published a Conversation reference
book and compiled a Croatian-Italian dictionary 220 years before
the reformer of the Serbian language, Vuk Karadzic, compiled the
first Serbian dictionary (1818).
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