by Josip Lisac as "the greatest catastrophe in the history of Croatian". The preserved manuscripts were used to publish the translation, with detailed expert notes, in 2000. The great linguistic variety and invention of his translation can be seen from the comparison with the King James Version of the Bible. The King James Version, which has had a profound impact on English, was published in 1611, two decades before Kašić's translation. It has 12,143 different words. Kašić's Croatian translation, even incomplete (some parts of the Old Testament are missing), has around 20,000 different words – more than the English version and even more than the original Bible! Roman Rite Ritual rimski ("Roman Rite"; 1640), covering more than 400 pages, was the most famous Kašić's work, which was used by all Croatian dioceses and archdioceses except for the one in Zagreb, which also accepted it in the 19th century. Kašić called the language used in Ritual rimski as naški ("our language") or bosanski ("Bosnian"). He used the term "Bosnian" even though he was born in a Chakavian region: instead he decided to adopt a "common language" (lingua communis), a version of Shtokavian Ikavian, spoken by the majority the speakers of Serbo-Croatian. He used the terms dubrovački (from Dubrovnik) for the Ijekavian version used in his Bible, and dalmatinski (Dalmatian) for the Chakavian version. Works Razlika skladanja slovinska (Croatian-Italian dictionary), Rome, 1599 Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo (The Structure of the Illyrian (Croatian) Language in Two Books), Rome, 1604 Various hagiographies; collection Perivoj od djevstva (Virginal Garden; 1625 and 1628) *Two catechisms Spiritual tragedy St Venefrida, 1627, published in 1938 The Bible, 1633 Ritual rimski (Roman Rite), 1640 References Sources In Croatian: Hrvatska biblija Bartola Kašića (Croatian Bible of Bartol Kašić), Slobodna Dalmacija, December 5, 2000 Zaslužni jezikoslovac Bartol Kašić (Bartol Kašić, the Great Linguist), Vjesnik, May 28, 1999 Bartol Kašić Bartol Kašić i Biblija 1575 births 1650 deaths 16th-century Croatian people 17th-century Croatian people 17th-century Venetian writers Ragusan clergy Linguists from Croatia Croatian lexicographers Croatian writers Croatian Jesuits Translators of the Bible into Croatian History of the Serbo-Croatian language Republic of Venice clergy Venetian Slavs Ragusan Jesuits Venetian Jesuits Roman Catholic missionaries in Croatia Missionary linguists Italian–Croatian translators