Antonio de Nebrija
Spanish author
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call for standardization of Spanish
- In Romance languages: The standardization of the Romance languages
…accompanied by the appearance of Antonio de Nebrija’s Gramática Castellana (“Grammar of the Castilian Language”), which argues the need for an ennobled language fit for imperial exportation. In 16th-century France, with the Renaissance backed by the Reformation and the advent of printing, French really assumed the remaining scholarly, scientific, and
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