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Onamo Namo
"Onamo, 'namo!" (Serbian Cyrillic: Онамо, 'намо!; en, There, o'er there!) also known as the ''Serb Marseillaise'' (Српска марсељеза / Srpska marseljeza) was a popular anthem in Montenegro in the late 19th to early 20th century. Glas Crnogorca, October 19, 1999: Jovan MarkušДвије црногорске химне/ref> The royal state anthem of Montenegro at the time was To Our Beautiful Montenegro, while the education anthem was the ''Hymn to Saint Sava''. The music was composed by Davorin Jenko or Franjo Vimer,Savo Andrić: Ослобођење, независност и уједињење Србије и Црне Горе, Химне Србије и Црне Горе, Belgrade 1999pg. 247/ref> partly drawing upon a song of Garibaldi's fighters, ''Si scopron le tombe, Si levano i morti'', with words written by prince Nicholas I of Montenegro. Having words that were considered too inflammatory, evoking provocation of the Ottoman Empire, it could not b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Cyrillic
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet. Karadžić based his alphabet on the previous Slavonic-Serbian script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters representing iotified vowels, introducing from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology. During the same period, linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted the Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets for Serbian-Croatian have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters. Karadžić's Cyril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
