摘要：This paper describes journalistic publishing activity of the nineteenth century in Osijek,with special reference to the publishing of newspapers in the Croatian language. It describes and compares spelling and grammatical features of the first Croatian newspaper in Osijek — Branislav (1878) — with the language of the Zagreb newspaper Narodne novine. Their language is in correlation with the language of Narodnost (1874), a Latin/Cyrillic newspaper which appeared in Osijek four years before Branislav, and whose linguistic features depart from the Croatian language norm of the nineteenth century. The influence of Narodnost on other newspapers that appeared in Osijek until the end of the nineteenth century is confirmed by the language of two official gazettes: the bilingual Croatian/German Slavonski Lloyd (1889) and Viestnik Županije virovitičke (1892).
关键词：Osijek newspapers in the 19th century; the language of the newspapers Branislav and Narodnost; Slavonski Lloyd and Viestnik Županije virovitičke; standard Croatian language of the 19th century
