OLDER CROATIAN WRITERS FROM THE DANUBE BASIN ON THEIR LANGUAGE AND ORTHOGRAPHY

U radu su slijedeća poglavlja: 1. Uvod, 2. Okviri rada u Podunavlju, 3. Pisci koji su pisali o jeziku i pravopisu, 4. O nazivu jezika, 5. Misli o grafijskim i pravopisnim rješenjima, 6. Zaključak, 7. Literatura. -Priložene su slike naslovnih stranica djela starijih hrvatskih pisaca u kojima se raspravlja o jeziku i pravopisu.Croatian writers from the Danube area worked under particular conditions: after the departure of the Turks they devoted themselves to the reconstruction of the country and to educational, literary and scientific work to satisfy the needs of the school system and of education in general. After the reign of Maria Theresa and Joseph II and up to the middle of the 19th century there was no significant philological activity, but then Ivan Antunović initiated regional literature in the Danube area. Among the writers mentioned in this paper are the following: Mihovil Radnić, Stjepan Vilov, Lovro Bračuljević, Emerik Pavić, Ivan Mihalović, Lajčo Budanović, Božo Šarčević and others. The writers called their language Bosnian, Bosnian-Slavonic, Ilyric and the language of the Bunjevci and the Šokci. All these terms actually describe the Croatian štokavian-ikavian dialects. Older writers had various solutions for orthography, but in 1730 Bračuljević stated that one should write as one spoke. In the course of the 19th century, Croatians from the Danube basin began to accept principles of orthography and to apply them as they were used in other Croatian areas