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Jernej Kopitar

Slovene poet

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development of Slovene language

  • Slovenia
    In Slovenia: The later Habsburg era

    …ideal, the poet and philologist Jernej Kopitar published the first grammar of the Slovene language in 1808. In his position as imperial censor, Kopitar made the acquaintance of the great Serb linguistic reformer Vuk Karadžić, and he tried to apply Karadžić’s ideas concerning the standardization of Slavonic orthography to Slovene…

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