Serbo-Croatian Language
Serbo-Croatian ( (listen)) – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.South Slavic languages historically formed a continuum. The turbulent history of the area, particularly due to expansion of the Ottoman Empire, resulted in a patchwork of dialectal and religious differences. Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread dialect in the western Balkans, intruding westwards into the area previously occupied …
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UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2007 English
The first book-length examination of North American Croatian diaspora responses to war and independence, We are Now a Nation highlights the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary debates about identity, politics, …
of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement on the Serbo-Croatian language 14 We Are Now a Nation (Greenberg 1996) …
SRDC: Social Research and Demonstration Corporation · 28 September 2006 English
-16- Table A.2: Government-Assisted Refugees — Landing Year by Source Country Landing Year Source Country 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 …
native languages. Between 1994 and 1999 the Serbo-Croatian language topped the list. In 2000 more GARs spoke …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2002 English
CONTENTS Acknowledgements page v Introduction 1 1. The Forging of Serbia's Intellectual Opposition 13 The forerunners: Djilas and Mihajlov, 1952—66 17 The critique of the Titoist system in the 1960s: …
'kajkavian' paved the way for the unity of Serbo-Croatian language (Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia …
