Complex sentence: These attempts, sponsored by the philologist Jernej Kopitar, were fiercely opposed by the Romantic intellectual circle around Matija Čop and France Prešeren, resulting in the so-called Slovene alphabet war (or "črkarska pravda",).
Split into simpler sentences: These attempts, sponsored by the philologist Jernej Kopitar, were however fiercely opposed by the Romantic intellectual circle around Matija Čop and France Prešeren. This debate over orthographic reform became known as the so-called Slovene alphabet war (or "črkarska pravda",).