Croatian Vukovians ( sh, hrvatski vukovci) refers to a group of
Croatian
linguists that were active at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Their work focused on the
standardization
Standardization or standardisation is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments. Standardization ...
of the
Croatian variety of
Serbo-Croatian language. They were led by
Tomislav Maretić, and the most prominent members were
Franjo Iveković
Franjo Iveković (September 19, 1834 – March 2, 1914) was a Croatian linguist and religious writer, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb.
Born in Klanjec, he studied theology in Zagreb and Pest, receiving his Ph.D. in th ...
,
Ivan Broz,
Pero Budmani,
Armin Pavić
Armin Pavić ( Požega, March 29, 1844 – Zagreb, February 11, 1914) was Croatian linguist, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb.
He received a degree in Classical philology and Slavic studies in Vienna in 1864. After h ...
,
Vatroslav Rožić Vatroslav Rožić (13 March 1857 – 6 March 1937) was a Croatian linguist and ethnographer.
He was born in Prodin Dol
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and others.
At the period when Vukovians operated, the issue of a dialectal basis for literary Croatian was not yet settled. Vukovians supported the Neoštokavian
Ijekavian dialect (
Eastern Herzegovinian dialect
The Eastern Herzegovinian dialect (, Serbo-Croatian: ''istočnohercegovački'' / источнохерцеговачки) is the most widespread subdialect of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, both by territory and the number of speakers. ...
) that was recorded by
Vuk Karadžić and described by
Đuro Daničić. They advocated the use of phonological
orthography. Through their positions at the
Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and the
University of Zagreb they exerted influence on the standardization of Croatian.
They published three fundamental works:
* ''Hrvatski pravopis'' (Croatian Normative Guide), Ivan Broz, 1892
* ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika'' (Grammar and Stylistics of Croatian or Serbian Language), Tomislav Maretić, 1899
* ''Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika'' (Croatian Dictionary), Franjo Iveković and Ivan Broz, 1901
Primarily due to political reasons as well as their professional competence, the standardized and orthographic conventions introduced and advocated by Vukovians were dominant at the end of the 19th century, and have shaped the course of the language standardization in Croatia in the first half of the 20th century. In their normative works (Maretić's grammar, Broz's orthography and the Broz–Iveković dictionary) they contributed to the final formation of the Croatian standard on a Neoštokavian dialect basis.
Notes
References
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*Pranjković, Ivo.
Hrvatski vukovci u ''Stoljećima hrvatske književnosti''(Franjo Iveković, Ivan Broz, Tomo Maretić, Vatroslav Rožić, Milan Rešetar, Antun Radić, Nikola Andrić, Dragutin Boranić: Jezikoslovne rasprave i članci, prir. Marko Samardžija)." Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 28.1 (2002): 403-408.
*Alerić, Marko. Conception of the Croatian Standard Language'hrvatskih vukovaca'. Diss. Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, 2001.
*Kuna, Branko. "Samardžija, Marko (2002)
Nekoć i nedavno. Odabrane teme iz leksikologije i novije povijesti hrvatskoga standardnoga jezika Rijeka: Izdavački centar." Jezikoslovlje 3.1-2 (2002): 253-257.
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