Zadar Philological School ( hr, Zadarska filološka škola) was a 19th-century philological school that operated in

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, offering a set of solutions for the issues involved in the standardization of Croatian literary language. It was led by Ante Kuzmanić. The schools' members initially published articles in the magazine '' Zora dalmatinska'' ("The Dalmatian Dawn") which they started in Zadar, 1844. As the basis of the Croatian standard language they advocated the old Dalmatian orthography, phonological spelling, and the usage of

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Štokavian dialect which was common to

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and

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and was used in many important literary works during the history. Later they accepted Gaj's orthography, but kept the Ikavian dialect. Kuzmanić's associates included

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from

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and Ignjat Alojzije Brlić from

. The second generation of the Zadar Philological School published in the newspaper ''

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'', and saw the future in the ideas that circulated from

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and the literary language of

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* {{citation , title=Pregled povijesti, gramatike i pravopisa hrvatskog jezika , year=2013 , publisher=Croatica , first=Ante , last=Bičanić , first2=Anđela , last2=Frančić , author3-first=Lana , author3-last=Hudeček , author4-first=Milica , author4-last=Mihaljević , language=Croatian Croatian language 19th century in Croatia

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