Dalibor Brozović (1927) is a Croatian linguist. He has worked in the areas of general linguistics, Slavic studies and dialectology. He made his most important contributions in the history of standard Slavic languages, especially the Croatian language. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... Slavistics or Slavic Studies is the study of Slavic languages, literature and culture. ... Dialectology is the study of dialects of a language, their evolution, differentiation, inter-intelligibity, grammar, phonetics etc. ... The Croatian language (Croatian: ) is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. ...

Life and career

He was born in Sarajevo and went to primary school in Zenica. Then he went to comprehensive secondary schools in Visoko, Sarajevo and Zagreb. He received a BA degree in the Croatian language and Yugoslav literature from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. In 1957, he received his Ph.D. with the study Speech in the Valley of River Fojnica. Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Coordinates: Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Canton Sarajevo Canton Mayor Semiha Borovac Area    - City 142 km²  (54. ... Zenica (Cyrillic: Зеница) is an industrial city (the fourth largest, after Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Tuzla) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the capital of the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity. ... Visoko is a small but famous and noteworthy city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Zagreb (pronounced: ) is the capital city of Croatia. ... The Croatian language (Croatian: ) is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all South Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for the three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... The University of Zagreb (Croatian SveučiliÅ¡te u Zagrebu, Latin Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe. ... Fojnica is a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

Brozović worked as an assistant at the Zagreb Theater Academy and as a lecturer at the University of Ljubljana. He was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar from 1956 to 1990. He is one of the authors of the Declaration on the Status and Name of the Croatian Standard Language, which started demolishing Yugoslavian linguistic unitarism and its promotion of a hybrid Serbo-Croatian language. The University of Ljubljana (in Slovenian, Univerza v Ljubljani; in Latin, Universitas Labacensis) is the first and the largest university in Slovenia; with 56,000 enrolled students. ... For other uses, see Zadar (disambiguation). ... Serbo-Croatian (srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski) is a name for a language of the Western group of the South Slavic languages. ...

He is a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In the late eighties, he was a co-founder and vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union, which would win the 1990 elections. He was the vice-president of the presidency of the Republic of Croatia and a member of the Croatian Parliament. From 1991 to 2000 he headed the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. He edited the Atlas of European and Slavic Dialectology. The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Latin Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, Croatian Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti) is the national academy of Croatia. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian: Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica, HDZ), is a major Croatian political party. ... First free multi-party elections for Croatian Parliament were held between April 22nd and May 7th 1990. ... The parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian - the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress. ...

Linguistic importance

His outstanding works are his studies about standard Slavic languages (especially his book Standard Language of 1970). Along with his numerous valuable studies about Croatian dialectology, phonology and comparative history of linguistics, Brozović used the conceptual tools of structural linguistics (Havranek, Trubetzkoy, Jakobson) to present a new picture of Croatian linguistic history, which replaced the rudimentary and often erroneous textbooks which had been using obsolete Neogrammarian terminology and approach.  Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language  Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language  Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... The vowels of modern (Standard) Arabic and (Israeli) Hebrew from the phonological point of view. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (Cyrillic ; Moscow, April 15, 1890 - Vienna, June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. ... Roman Osipovich Jakobson (October 11, 1896 - July 18, 1982) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art. ... The Neogrammarians (also Young Grammarians, German Junggrammatiker) were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. ...

His work Croatian Language, Its Place among the South Slav and Other Slav Languages, Its Historical Changes as the Language of Croatian Literature (1978) divides the history of the Croatian language into three pre-standard and three standard periods. In the time when it was widely believed that Croatian was standardized around the time of the Illyrian movement and Ljudevit Gaj, Brozović showed that the standardization began around 1600 and greatly developed around 1750. The Illyrian movement was a cultural-literary movement in the 19th century Habsburg Empire. ... Ljudevit Gaj Ljudevit Gaj (August 8, 1809 – April 20, 1872) was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. ...

Works

• Rječnik jezika ili jezik rječnika (Dictionary of a Language or a Language of Dictionaries), Zagreb, 1969
• Standardni jezik (Standard Language), Zagreb, 1970
• Deset teza o hrvatskome jeziku (Ten Theses about the Croatian Language), Zagreb, 1971
• Hrvatski jezik, njegovo mjesto unutar južnoslavenskih i drugih slavenskih jezika, njegove povijesne mijene kao jezika hrvatske književnosti (Croatian Language, Its Place among the South Slav and Other Slav Languages, Its Historical Changes as the Language of Croatian Literature), 1978
• Fonologija hrvatskoga književnog jezika (Phonology of the Croatian Standard Language) in the book Povijesni pregled, glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnog jezika (Historical Overview, Sounds and Forms of the Croatian Standard Language), Zagreb, 1991

External links

In Croatian:

• Dalibor Brozović, academy member
• Dalibor Brozović: interview
• Organic Foundation of the Croatian Language