Khramatyka slovens’ka iazyka [Храматика словенська язика; Khramatyka slovens’ka jazyka; Grammar of the Slavic Language]. The earliest printed grammar for Ukrainian students based on the widespread manuscript treatise ‘On Eight Parts of Speech’ compiled in Serbia in the 14th century. It was commissioned by Prince Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozky for the Ostroh Academy and printed by the Mamonich brothers in Vilnius in 1586.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]


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