 one of the defining features of modern croatian language is according to some a preference for word coinage from native slavic morphemes, as opposed to adopting loanwords or replacing them altogether. this particularly relates to other serbo-croatian standards of bosnian and serbian which liberally draw on turkish, latin, greek and russian loanwords. ==description== croatian literature across the centuries is argued to demonstrate a tendency to cherish slavic words and word coinage, and to expel "foreign" borrowings. croatian philologist zlatko vince articulates this tendency as follows: croatian literature even in the old ages tends to stay away from barbarisms and foreign words, a certain conscious care in the works of literature is felt when it comes to language selection. in the course of centuries hence the tendency is formed for literary language to be as much as pure and selective as possible. one thing is the colloquial language, often ridden with foreign words, and entirely different thing is the language of literary works in which tendency for language purity arises. the way and the extent to which that need could be satisfied is different in various periods, but the tendency for as pure and selective language can be noted even in old dubrovnik writers, and in vitezoviÄ. all the way to pre-illyrian and illyrian efforts and by the end of the xix. century, when the osmotic influence of traditional croatian literary heritage does not cease to stop...that care of language purity which characterizes croatian literary expression even in the xix. century, remains immanent in later periods...literary language of the croats is in fact organic continuation of older state of affairs in croatian literature.{{cite book |last=vince |first=zlatko |title=filoloÅ¡ke Å¡kole xix. stoljeÄa u razvoju hrvatskog knjiÅ¾evnog jezika |language=croatian |location=zagreb |year=1968 |pages=171â172 |quote=u hrvatskoj se knjiÅ¾evnosti veÄ u staro doba nastoje kloniti barbarizama i stranih rijeÄi, osjeÄa se u knjiÅ¾evnim djelima odreÄena svjesna briga oko jeziÄnog odabiranja. u toku stoljeÄa javlja se dakle teÅ¾nja da knjiÅ¾evni jezik u knjiÅ¾evnim djelima bude Å¡to ÄiÅ¡Äi, probraniji. jedno je jezik razgovorni, Äesto pun tuÄica, a drugo je jezik u knjiÅ¾evnim djelima u kojima se javlja nastojanje za Å¡to veÄom jeziÄnom ÄistoÄom. naÄin na koji se to moÅ¾e postiÄi i u kojoj mjeri, u raznim je vremenima razliÄit, ali teÅ¾nju za Å¡to probranijim i Äistijim knjiÅ¾evnim jezikom zapaÅ¾amo i kod dubrovaÄkih knjiÅ¾evnika, i kod vitezoviÄa...ta briga oko jeziÄne ÄistoÄe koja karakterizira hrvatski knjiÅ¾evni izraz i u xix. stoljeÄu, ostala je imanentna i kasnije...knjiÅ¾evni jezik u hrvata zapra
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