Ljudevit Gaj (
August 8,
1809,
Krapina –
April 20,
1872,
Zagreb) was a
Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was the central person of the Croatian national reformation or the
Illyrian Movement. He was of
French descent.In
1830 in
Buda he printed the book Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskog pravopisanja ("Brief Basics of the Croatian-Slavonic Orthography"), which was the first common Croatian
orthography book (after the works of
Ignjat Đurđević and
Pavao Ritter Vitezović). The book was printed bilingually, in
Croatian and
German. The Croatians used the
Latin alphabet, but some of the specific sounds were not uniformly represented. Gaj followed the example of Pavao Ritter Vitezović and the
Czech orthography, using one letter of the Latin script for each sound in the language. He used
diacritics and the
digraphs lj and nj.
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