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Syv retained his good health into old age. A week before his death he gave a sermon, performed a wedding and a baptism, and entertained dinner guests. A stomach ache afflicted him for the next four days, culminating in his death on the night of Friday 17 February. An old friend of his, priest, poet,
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had contributed to making their local vernacular languages respectable languages for written literature, so this was to be done for the Danish language. He pointed out that for this to happen it would be necessary to write a grammar and a dictionary to produce a written standard, and to convert the
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In Peder Syv's era, Danish was primarily a spoken language with little prestige. Latin and German were the languages used in writing and in most official functions. Syv was one of a small group of scholars who worked to introduce Danish in a wider spectrum of social domains and to establish
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Memorial stone for Peder Syv at
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In 1685, Syv published the first grammar of Danish written in Danish (two other Latin grammars of Danish had been published in the preceding decades), named
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