Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1914 — Ancient Language Revived. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Language Revived.

The revival of the Provencal language has been paralleled by the revival of Czech, the native Slav tongue of Bohemia, In which John Hubs, the reformer, wrote at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and which was forbidden and practically destroyed until a hundred years ago. Dobrovsky started a movement which ha* made it again the written and spoken language of a nation. The Yeats-Greg-ory-Douglas Hyde attempt to revive Gaelic in Ireland is a similar but not equally successful movement