For familar historical reasons (political administrative independence, the popularity of pan-Slav ideas, etc.), difficulties with defining the way in which a unified Slovene standard language should be formed and develop have at times – such as in the late 18th century, in the 19th century and even on occasion in the 20th century – led to numerous projects and proposals for the reform of the language,
following a path from the mother tongue through an imaginary 'South Slav' or 'Illyrian' language to a pan-Slav language. In the 1890s, the idea of linguistic union was disseminated by Sapel and Kumerdej, while in the 19th century, the leading role in Slovene projects for the creation of artificial languages was played by Majar (prior to that by Raič and Razlag, later by Caf, Matvej Lamurskij, i.e.
Matej Ternovec, and so on) and at the turn of the century by Škrabec. The idea survived into the first half of the 20th century in local experiments and the formation of standard Slovene – for example by 'Črtomyrov', i.e. Milan Kuret, etc. All this data from the history of the Slovene standard language is perhaps of marginal importance, but bears witness to the uniqueness of development within a single language. At the same time, these projects and proposals represent a field of research for Slovene interlinguistics – a discipline that has not yet been officially recognised, but which nevertheless exists, especially if we place its autonomous elements within the framework of Slavic interlinguistics, i.e. the discipline directed towards research into questions of Slav linguistic harmo- nisation (reform of standard languages, local and global projects involving pan-Slav artificial languages, etc.). In relation to this the researched material must be evaluated from the point of view of the appearance of norms in standard Slovene and all its functional varieties.
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