Martin Hattala [SEP] occupation
Martin Hattala
Martin Hattala (4 November 1821 in Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary (today Slovakia) – 11 December 1903 in Prague) was a Slovak pedagogue, Roman Catholic theologian and linguist. He is best known for his reform of the Štúr's Slovak language, so-called Hodža-Hattala reform, in which he introduced the etymological principle to the Slovak language.
Linguistic publications.
- "Grammatica linguae slovenicae collatae cum proxime cognata bohemica" (Grammar of the Slovak language compared with the most closely related Czech
Latin language, used since the Middle Ages, with the Hungarian language as the official language of Hungary, which included at the time what later became Slovakia.
History of standard language Standard period Hodža-Hattala reform.
In 1851, the supporters of Bernolák and Štúr made a compromise and agreed on the reform of the Štúr's standard. The new standard respected etymological principles instead of Štúr's phonetic-phonological transcription and used a Slovak orthography closer to other Slavic languages, especially Czech. The new grammar was published by Martin Hattala