Einige Randbemerkungen über die Rolle von Dubrovnik in der Sprachentwicklung der Kroaten und Serben
Some marginal notes on the role of Dubrovnik in the development of Croatian and Serbian language

Summary/Abstract: The paper claims that apart from the Dubrovnik literary language of the “Golden Age” (15th–16th c.) based on the Čakavian dialect it was the Štokavian dialect that gained dominance both in urban everyday speech and the language of administration reflecting it. The Štokavian dialect had completely ruled out the Čakavian dialect even from literature by the 17th century. This spontaneous linguistic process significantly contributed to the emergence of a unified Serbo-Croatian literary language in the middle of the 19th century.

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