Hrvatski jezik u svjetlu hrvatskih mučeničkih obljetnica
Croatian Language in the Light of Croatian Martyrdom Anniversaries

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the Croatian language in the light of Croatian martyrdom anniversaries. The deaths of Zrinski and Frankopan disrupted the development of a mixed (hybrid) type of Croatian literary language, and prior to all other Croatian martyrdom anniversaries there was a period of linguistic unitarianism and suppression of Croatian language characteristics. This suppression was disguised under the name Serbo-Croatian used for the Croatian language as an expression of Serbocentrism that was frequently used as a synonym for Yugocentrism. All these anniversaries were preceded by a short period of striving for the specific characteristics of the Croatian language and by efforts for its unhindered development and equal position in a multinational state. These aspirations continue in all the events the anniversaries of which we are celebrating. These were crucial years in the development of the Croatian language, especially of the Croatian language of law. This development was marked by linguistic purism, by deserbization in the Croatian state, and by resistance against linguistic unitarianism in the multinational federal state.

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