Book/Printed Material Bulgarian Grammar.
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Title
- Bulgarian Grammar.
Summary
- Notable as the first Bulgarian grammar, this book is also culturally significant because of the role that its author, Neofit Rilski (1793--1881), played in the promotion of secular education in Bulgaria and in the establishment of a modern Bulgarian literary language. Neofit, a priest associated with the Rila Monastery, was a leading figure in the 19th-century Bulgarian National Revival and its concomitant education reform. He was the first headmaster of the Gabrovo School, the first secular school in Bulgaria. In the midst of a national debate in the 1830s--1840s about choosing among competing dialects and creating a standard literary language, Neofit published his landmark grammar and its philological preface, in which he presented his ideas on the standardization of Bulgarian. Even though his work was grammatically conservative--it included, for example, declension, a feature long dead in the spoken language--it laid the foundation for codifying the new literary language and was enormously influential in the development of modern Bulgarian.
Names
- Rilski, Neofit, 1793-1881 Author.
Created / Published
- Kragujevac : Kniazhestvo-srŭbska (Pravitelstvena) knigopechatnia, 1835.
Headings
- - Bulgaria
- - 1835
- - Bulgarian language
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "The book is printed in Church Slavic script."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: vi, 211 pages ; 21 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
- - Content in Bulgarian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021666554
Online Format
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