Slovenia Post issued a special stamp to celebrate one of the country’s prominent personalities - Adam Bohorič. In 1584 he wrote (in Latin) the first grammar of Slovene, entitled Arcticae horulae ſucciſivae. The grammatical structures in it are adapted to the structures of Latin. The stamp introduced by Slovenia Post shows the first page of the grammar, with an indication in Latin explaining that the grammar is also applicable to other Slavonic languages. Attention is also drawn to the orthographic table in the Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts.
The publication of this linguistic work placed Slovene among the first ten cultured languages (according to the understanding of the time) to have its own grammar. In it, Bohorič codified the first Slovene alphabet, which he based on the Latin script. His alphabet had been in use until the mid-nineteenth century, when it was replaced by Gaj’s Latin alphabet. The book was adapted and republished as Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica in 1715 by Janez Adam Geiger. Adam Bohorič’s pioneering grammar has the leading position in the framework of contemporary European linguistics.
