Do you know who said “There is no ‘y’ in our language”…? In saying this, Ľudovít Štúr denies the fact that he is responsible for using upsilon in standardized Slovak.
On the occasion of the Year of Ľudovít Štúr we remind you of famous claims of our best-known national awakener Ľudovít Štúr. The claims can be found in the following books:
- Nauka reči Slovenskej (accessible here),
- Nárečja Slovenskuo alebo Potreba písaňja v tomto nárečí (accessible here).
To get more information not only about the social and political issues in the years of standardization of Slovak language, read the study Kodifikácia novej spisovnej slovenčiny – predpoklady a kompromisy written by Ľubomír Ďurovič.
Ján Kačala deals in detail with Štúr’s research works and benefits for contemporary Slovak in the article Jazykovedné dielo Ľudovíta Štúra a súčasná slovakistika.
You can also read a short study published by the Slovak National Library in 2014, written on the occasion of the 171st anniversary of standardization of the Slovak language.
If you are still bothered about why Slovak uses upsilon, please read the explanation here.
Posters with Ľudovít Štúr’s claims can be found here.
Reel can be found here.
For more information on the Year of Ľudovít Štúr, please visit the official website.