President Milanović Receives Researchers of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović met today in the Office of the President with representatives of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, an official institute in Croatia tasked with preserving and fostering the Croatian language.
The team of researchers of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics comprising its Director Dr. Željko Jozić, Dr. Vuk-Tadija Barbarić, Dr. Marijana Horvat, Dr. Sanja Perić Gavrančić and Dr. Kristina Štrkalj Despot presented to President Milanović the Institute’s latest publication entitled Judita Marka Marulića: transkripcija i prilagodba na suvremeni hrvatski jezik [Judita by Marko Marulić: transcription and adaptation to the modern Croatian language].
The authors said at the meeting that the book was written on the occasion of the major 500th anniversary of the printed edition of Judita by Marko Marulić, the first literary work in the Croatian language. Namely, Marko Marulić’s Judita was printed in 1521 in Venice, while in Croatia the year 2021 was declared the Year of Marko Marulić and also the Year of Reading. The delegation explained that because this masterpiece of Croatian literature is relatively difficult to understand today, which is why it has remained undiscovered by younger generations of readers, a working group of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics was formed with the task of drafting a text of Judita that is adapted to the modern Croatian language.
Adviser to the President of the Republic for Education Jadranka Žarković and Special Adviser to the President of the Republic for Culture Zdravko Zima were alongside President Milanović at the meeting.
PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Marko Beljan