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The Written Croatian Vernacular in the Middle Ages between Church Slavonic and Latin

The issue of the definition of the written “language of the people” (also the vernacular) is one of the most complicated questions of Croatian philology. This is mainly because, at least when it comes to the earliest centuries of literacy (the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries), the relationship between Church Slavonic and the vernacular is not completely clear. In any event, Church Slavonic at that time was recognizably different from Croatian dialects. At the same time, however, it was without any doubt completely understandable to the speakers of those dialects, even if we take into account the regional differences which were already apparent.

Croatian, Latin, Church Slavonic, glagolitic, cyrillic

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