Aspectele lingvistice ale renaşterii naţionale cehe
Linguistic aspects of the Czech National Revival

Summary/Abstract: The Czech National Revival was a cultural movement in the Czech Kingdom during the 18th and 19th century whose main goal was to revive Czech language culture and national identity. The Czech language had a peculiar situation compared to other national languages of Europe at the date. It was more or less eradicated from state administration, literature, schools, even from the Prague University and among the upper classes, because after the Battle of White Mountain most of Czech intellectual elites flee the country and the Czech language was reduced to a means of communication between peasants, who were often illiterate. Therefore, the Revival had an important linguistic aspect and one of its main features was the Defence of the Czech language.

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