Slavoserbian

Slawenoserbisch (Serbian славеносрпски / slavenosrpski ) is a Slavic written language that was used from the mid-18th century to the beginning of the 19th century of the educated population predominantly Serbian town in Vojvodina.

Formation and structure

The language situation in the field of Slavia Orthodoxa, so those Slavic-speaking areas whose population practiced the Eastern Church rite, until the 18th century was a classic diglossic situation: The traditional high-level language Church Slavonic ( in the local editorial staff) were not available over the local dialects, literature were capable. This situation was also true for the Serbs of Vojvodina: Here, however, was not used, the original Serbian Church Slavonic as a high-level language, but the most standardized and most prestigious at that time Russian Church Slavonic. A major cause was the refusal of many printers in the Habsburg South Slav -dominated areas, texts to be printed in Cyrillic. For this reason, we turned in 1721 to the Russian Empire, which nachkam asking for support. The Russian Church Slavonic, however, was only partially suitable to be used in certain non-religious domains of social life such as the press or Fiction. As a result, a mixed language of Russian Church Slavonic, Serbian dialect features and Russian elements is denoted by Slawenoserbisch arose. In this language, secular printed materials such as the Slaweno - Serbian magazine ( Славено - Сербскій Магазинъ ) were written.

The artificial and difficult to understand nature of Slawenoserbischen was of the romantic ideals committed Vuk Karadžić rejected, so that in the 19th century, the modern Serbian literary language true to its motto "Write as you speak " pure was based on the dialects and the Church Slavonic (and thus slawenoserbische ) heritage has been neglected.

Links and literature

  • Anna Kretschmer: On the methodology of the study of older Slavic written language texts ( on the example of slavenoserbischen literature ). Sagner, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-87690-425-0, ( 241 Slavic Contributions ) ( At the same time: Bochum, Univ, Diss, 1988. ).
  • Anna Kretschmer: Slawenoserbisch. In: Miloš Okuka (ed.): Encyclopedia of the languages ​​of Eastern Europe. Wieser, Klagenfurt others 2002, ISBN 3-85129-510-2, ( Wieser Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe 10 ), pp. 473-476, online ( PDF file, 163 kB).
  • Nikita I. Tolstoy: Literaturnyj jazyk Serbov v Konce XVIII - XIX v. načale In: Nikita I. Tolstoy: (ed.): Izbrannye trudy. T. 2 Jazyki russkoj Kul'tury, Moskva 1998, ISBN 5-7859-0017-3, pp. 239-344.

East Slavonic: Altnowgoroder dialect † | Altostslawisch † | Carpatho - Russinisch | Russian | Ruthenian † | Ukrainian | Belarusian | Westpolessisch

Westslawisch: Kashubian | Knaanisch † | Lower | Upper Sorbian | Polabian † | Pomoranisch † | Polish | Slovak | Slovincian † | Czech

South Slavonic: Aegean Macedonian | Old Church Slavonic † | Banat Bulgarian | Bosnian | Bulgarian | Burgenland Croatian | Croatian | Macedonian | Moliseslawisch | Montenegrin | Serbian | Serbo-Croatian | Slovenian

Other: Jugoslawo - Russinisch | Church Slavic | Russenorsk † | Slawenoserbisch † | Slovianski | Slovio | Proto-Slavic †

Extinct †

Diglossia Old Novgorod dialect Kashubian language Knaanic language Banat Bulgarian dialect Macedonian language Montenegrin language
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