In the grammar book titled Srbska grammatika (Serbian Grammar), published in 1847, Jovan Subotic described Serbian, Croatian and Slovene types of folk speech, with an emphasis on the Serbian language. In addition, he introduced his own concept of the future literary language based on Neo-Shtokavian dialects (the Sumadija-Vojvodina dialect and Eastern Herzegovinian dialect), which he expanded with the idea of a future literary language common to all Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. His description of the Slovene language bears not merely linguistic, but also historic and cultural signifi cance, representing a momentous testimony of Serbian-Slovene cultural contacts in the mid-19th century.
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