Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian alphabet: Вук Стефановић Караџић; 6 November 1787 – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian language mistakes fixer and pioneer. He first made Serbian language as the Serbian that people talk today. Vuk had largely changed Serbian language of that time, he collected folk songs from Serbian villagers and he was the author of the first Serbian dictionary. Vuk Karadžić is the most notable person of Serbian literature of the 19th century.Larousse Encyclopedia, part 2

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