An addendum to the use of Moravian dialectisms in the religious language of the Czech National Revival: The case of Josef Hrdina's book (1833)
Abstract
In this article, the author supplements the results of his recent research on the use of regionalisms (or dialectisms) in biblical and broadly religious texts of Moravian provenance in the approximate range from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. The article focuses on the language aspects of the Marian prayer book of the forgotten Moravian priest from the time of the Czech National Revival Josef Hrdina (1781-1852), which was published in 1833.
The text contains quite a lot of special elements (from different language levels), especially Moravian dialectisms, but also several author's neologisms or possible borrowings from living Slavic languages. However, it is very likely that the language unit presented in this print was not meant to be a separate Moravian language, but rather probably represents the author's idea of a kind of Moravian variety of literary Czech language.
Only later did Josef Hrdina take a clear step towards constituting an independent (micro)language, which he called "Moravian Slavic" (moravská slověnščina) and which he presented in the book published just before his death (1851).