Croatian Linguistic Purism
One of the features of standard Croatian language and in common with several languages such as Czech, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Tamil, Turkish is word coinage using roots or elements perceived as being characteristic or unique to the speech of the community.
The Croatian tradition of neologisms and linguistic purism goes back to the earliest documents of literacy (11th to 12th century), but it was in the Renaissance Croatian literature that this characteristic has become dominant.
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