Serbian Dictionary

After moving from Serbia to Vienna, young Vuk Karadžić, at the instigation of Jernej Kopitar, the court librarian and censor for Slavic languages, began to collect and write down words and expressions from the Serbian vernacular. The first edition of the Serbian Dictionary, interpreted with German and Latin words, was published in 1818 with 26,270 words that were used by the people, all translated into German and Latin. The dictionary also contains the second, supplemented edition of the Serbian language grammar published in 1814 under the title Pismenica serbskoga jezika (Serbian Language Grammar Book). Several years later, the grammar of the Serbian language was translated into German by Jakob Grimm.