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The Slavonic-Serbian language (славяносербскій / slavjanoserbskij or словенскій slovenskij; [славеносрпски / slavenosrpski] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a form of the Serbian language which was predominantly used at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century by educated Serbian citizens in Vojvodina, and the Serbian diaspora in other parts of the Habsburg Monarchy.

History and usage[edit]

After the First Serb Exodus of Serbs in 1689, led by the Patriarch Arsenije Čarnojević, the largest part of the Serbian people came to the Habsburg Monarchy. There they came under pressure to become Roman Catholics, and to write using the Latin alphabet instead of their traditional Cyrillic.

The Russian Emperor Peter the Great sent Cyrillic books from Russia after requests from the Serbian Orthodox Church, which feared that the Serbs would convert to Roman Catholicism, the religion of the Habsburg Monarchy. However, those books were in a form of Russian that was in decline even then. language,russian main church language.

While that language became the official language of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the people could neither understand it nor use it. Serbs spoke the Serbian language or as it was called that time the "pučki language" (пучки). However, it was not considered to bedeveloped enough to be used as a language for writing, and many peasants were illiterate. Only a few people could use XXX. Many writers, such as Dositej Obradović wanted to write in the pučki language, but had to use some words from the XXXXXXXXXXXX, because words for some abstract concepts were lacking in the pučki language. It was a total confusion,and a new alternative had to be found. The Serbs had to choose a language so they could write books. They could not make any combinations, they had to choose one, and then to send their choice to the Austro-hungarian emperor Josif II,so they could write their own books. A new language was created-Slavonic-Serbian. It was a mixture of the Russo-Slavonic and the Pucki(Today's Serbian language). So there were three choices: Russo-Slavonic Pucki(Today's Serbian) Slavonic-Serbian The Choice was the 3rd option. The intelectuals used it as the official written language of Serbia, but the peasants still could not understand it.

By the middle of the 19th century, after the reforms made by Vuk Karadzic to the Pucki language, Slavonic-Serbian was less used; after 1870, it totally disappeared, and the new official language for writting became the reformed Pucki language or as it is called today the Serbian Language

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Taking a sentence from "The Slavonic-Serbian Magazine" ("Славеносербски магазин") as an example of the language could be useful: "Ves'ma by meni priskorbno bylo, ako bi ja kadgod čuo, čto ty, moj syne, upao u pyanstvo, roskoš', bezčinie, i nepotrebnoe žitie". Even that one sentence shows that the language is full with the Russian words (čto), Russian building forms (roskoš' instead of raskoš), as well as the appearance of the letter –t in the third person plural of the present tense (oni mogut' instead of oni mogu).

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