Scientific texts in Kajkavian Croatian literary language in the 19^th century

Abstract

After the final acceptance of the Croatian standard language based on the Shtokavian stylization of Jekavian pronunciation, the Kajkavian literary language stopped being the language of official communication. Up to that time, it had developed almost all features of the standard language, among others the scientific and popular scientific substyle as well as the terminology of a number of disciplines. In this paper on selected examples which belong to different genres (practical books for help in all areas of folk life, calendars, textbooks and manuals, monographs and scientific works) the features of the scientific functional style in Kajkavian literary language of the 19th century are analyzed.

Keywords

• Kajkavian literary language
• 19^th century
• scientific functional style
• terminology
• standardization