Born in Slanica, in the Orava region, Bernolak was the first person to create a Slovak literary language.He based his new language on the Western Slovak dialect. The language used a phonetic spelling (i.e. write it as you pronounce it) and was first used in his "Grammatica Slavica" in 1790.
Bernolak's Slovak was used until 1851, when it was replaced by a language developed by Ludovit Stur, based on the Central Slovak dialect.
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