Lozynsky's grammar was approved by Erney Kopitar, but neither its first nor the second edition was published. The reason for this in the first attempt of the publication was that Lozynskyi undertook new research, while the second edition was rejected by the Lviv censor Venedikt Levitsky. Lozynsky's grammar was an attempt to solve the problem of unsuitability of the Church Slavonic Cyrillic alphabet for the new literary Ukrainian language, which began to develop in the early 19th century. based on the vernacular. Despite the fact that some Ukrainian figures supported this idea (for example, Ivan Holovatsky, the brother of Yakov Holovatskyi), in general it did not gain wide recognition. In particular, Ukrainian cultural figures protested against this — the Ruthenian Triad (in particular, Markiian Shashkevych in the article "Azbuka and Abecadło"), Yosyp Levytskyi (the article "Odpowiedź na zdanie o zaprowadzeniu abecadła polskiego do piśmiennictwa ruskiego").