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The more cultivated part of the Servians profess the
Greek faith – but there are many roman Catholics, and
perhaps a majority of Mussulmans among them. Their
literature emanates wholly from the christians of the
Greek church. The first Greek presented in the Servian language was an Autobiography
by Obradovich, a monk who had the courage to attempt & the
happiness to rescue fix the Standard of his mother tongue. Before
his time all the words were written in the miserable old church Sclavonic
dialect – familiar to the priests but imperfectly understood by
the people. So little was had the spoken language of Servia been
committed to paper than even the illustrious industrious Adelung in his
Mithridates is, we perceive, unable to give more than a
broken fragment as a specimen. In 1783 the work of
Obradovich appeared – in 1818 the Editor Vuk published
his Servian Dictionary & Grammar – & in 1823, by the
most interesting collection of popular songs, whose title
heads the present article & of which we shall now give
some account

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