Slavonic-Serbian
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The Slavonic-Serbian language (славяносербскій [slavjanoserbskij], словенскій [slovenskij] in Serbian славеносрпски/slavenosrpski) is a form of the Serbian language which was predominantly used at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century by educated Serbian citizens in Vojvodina, and the Serbian diaspora in other parts of the Habsburg Monarchy.
History and usage
After the Great Migration of Serbs in 1689, led by the patriarch Čarnojević, the largest part of the Serbian people came to Austria. There they came under pressure to become Catholics, and to write using the Roman alphabet instead of their traditional Cyrillic.
Russian emperor Peter the Great sent Cyrillic books from Russia. However, those books were in the Russo-Slavonic language. While that language became the official language of the Serbian Orthodox Church, people couldn't understand and use it. The Slavonic-Serbian language was made - was a hybrid language, a mixture of the Russo-Slavonic and the people's speech of the Vojvodina Serbs.
By the middle of the 19th century, Slavonic-Serbian was less used; after 1870, it totally disappeared.
Characteristics
Taking a sentence from "The Slavonic-Serbian Magazine" ("Славеносербски магазин") as an example of the language could be useful: "Ves'ma by meni priskorbno bylo, ako bi ja kadgod čuo, čto ty, moj syne, upao u pyanstvo, roskoš', bezčinie, i nepotrebnoe žitie". Even that one sentence shows that the language is full with the Russian words (čto), Russian building forms (roskoš' instead of raskoš), as well as the appearance of the letter –t in the 3th character of plural of the present tense (oni mogut' instead of oni mogu).
See also
- Church Slavonic - its ancestor
- Serbian language
| Slavic languages | |||
| East Slavic | Belarusian | Old East Slavic † | Russian | Rusyn (Carpathians) | Ruthenian † | Ukrainian | ||
| West Slavic | Czech | Kashubian | Knaanic † | Lower Sorbian | Polabian † | Polish | Pomeranian † | Slovak | Slovincian † | Upper Sorbian | ||
| South Slavic | Banat Bulgarian | Bosnian | Bulgarian | Burgenland Croatian | Croatian | Macedonian | Molise Croatian | Montenegrin | Old Church Slavonic † | Serbian | Serbo-Croatian | Slavic (Greece) | Slovenian | ||
| Other | Church Slavonic | Old Novgorod dialect † | Proto-Slavic † | Russenorsk † | Rusyn (Pannonia) | Slavonic-Serbian † | Slovio | ||
| † Language death>Extinct | |||
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