JURAJ KRIŽANIĆ - THE GRAMMARIAN OF »OZALJSKI KRUG« (OZALJ CIRCLE)

Abstract

»Gramatičko iskazanje ob ruskom jeziku«, written by Juraj Križanić at Tobolsk in 1665, was conceived as an ali-Slavic grammar, in which six Slavic language systems were included but Russian and Croatian were the most represented ones.
Philological and specially language analysis of the contents of Križanić's comments relating to the Croatian language in this grammar shovv that the Croatian language was for him a hybrid language of the writers of the Ozalj literary-linguistic circle which operated in 17th century dominions of the Zrinskis and Frankopans.
This language was a literary koinè having tridialectal basis with parallel elements of the Čakavian and Kajkavian and Štokavian dialects.