Srpski rječnik

work by Karadžić

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  • Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
    In Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

    …1818 he first published his Srpski rječnik (“Serbian Lexicon”), a Serbian-German-Latin dictionary containing 26,270 words and many important sidelights on folklore. The second edition (1852), expanded to about 47,000 words, remains a classic. Though there was strong opposition to his reform from the church and from writers, the Serbian government…

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