Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/jezik.2025.72.25
From the legacy of Stjepan Babić How the unpublished Croatian orthography manual from 1952 became a component of the Novi Sad orthography manual from 1960
Nataša Bašić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-4743
; retired lexicographer, Zagreb
Abstract
In the paper the sociolinguistic environment is presented in which the Orthography
Manual of the Croatian Literary Language was created, what it contained, why the Council
of Education did not approve its printing in 1954 but instead referred the Croatian Philological
Society, where the orthography had been developed, to an orthographic agreement
with the Serbian side, and how it eventually became a Croatian component of the Novi Sad
orthography manual. Part of the material was used to analyze phonological and morphological
differences in the proclaimed unified Novi Sad orthography, in which the Croatian
and Serbian parts were supposed to differ only in scripts (Cyrillic and Latin), but the differences,
as shown, occurred among entire categories-declension, conjugation, gender,
and accentuation. The accentuation system described and applied in the orthography differed
from the Croatian usage and prescribed norm. Even along with the creation of the
Orthographic Dictionary, several articles were published in Jezik about the Neo-Stokavian
Karadžić-Daničić accentuation canon and the deviations from it in the Croatian (and Serbian)
language. Stjepan Ivšić, Dalibor Brozović Bratoljub Klaić, and the editor-in-chief of Jezik
Ljudevit Jonke wrote about this.
Keywords
Stjepan Babić; Ljudevit Jonke; Bratoljub Klaić; Stjepan Ivšić; history of the Croatian orthography; Jezik=Language‒journal for the culture of the Croatian literary language, standard language, Orthography Manual of the Croatian Literary Language (1954); Novi Sad Orthography Manual (1960); Croatian accentuation system, Serbian accentuation system; differences between the croatian and Serbian literary/standard language
Hrčak ID:
344269
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2025.
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