Karadžić's reforms of the Serbian literary language modernised it and distanced it from Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic, instead bringing it closer to common folk speech, specifically, to the dialect of Eastern Herzegovina which he spoke.
卡拉季奇对塞尔维亚书面语的改革使之现代化，并使之与塞尔维亚和俄国教会斯拉夫语拉开了距离，反而更接近常见的民间语言，尤其是东黑塞哥维那的方言。