- The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is Vuk Stefanović
Karadžić.
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Вук
Стефановић Караџић)
(November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serb linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.
Karadžić was born in the village of Tršić, near Loznica in Serbia; his first name "Vuk" means "wolf". Apart from learning to read and
write in the Tronoša monastery he
educated himself. He took part in Serbian uprisings against Ottoman occupation and left us detailed accounts of them.
Karadžić reformed the Serb language and standardized the Serb Cyrillic alphabet by following strict phonemic principles,
though in everyday usage but less accurately his alphabet is often termed a phonetic alphabet. This made it one of the most usable in the world.
Kardžić's reforms of Serbian modernized the language and distanced it from Church Slavonic, instead bringing it closer to its close neighbour Croatian. Austrian authorities encouraged the merging of the
two languages, and together with Đuro Daničić, Karadžić was the main Serbian signer of the Vienna
Agreement of 1850 which laid the foundation for the later Serbo-Croatian language.
He collected several tomes of folk prose and poetry and created all the works listed below. For his work he received little
financial aid, at times living in poverty. He died in Vienna.
Major works
Quotation
Write as you speak and read as it is written. [The essence of modern Serbian spelling]
In Serbian: Пиши као што
говориш и читај како
је написано (Piši kao što govoriš i čitaj kako
je napisano)
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