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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

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rilski, Neofit, Author. Bulgarian Grammar. Kragujevac: Kniazhestvo-srŭbska Pravitelstvena knigopechatnia, 1835. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666554/.

APA citation style:

Rilski, N. (1835) Bulgarian Grammar. Kragujevac: Kniazhestvo-srŭbska Pravitelstvena knigopechatnia. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666554/.

MLA citation style:

Rilski, Neofit, Author. Bulgarian Grammar. Kragujevac: Kniazhestvo-srŭbska Pravitelstvena knigopechatnia, 1835. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666554/>.