{"id":1020,"date":"2019-09-05T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:16:03","slug":"hr-srb_one_language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/hr-srb_one_language\/","title":{"rendered":"One language, much politics around"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is a language, \u00f3ne language, spoken “from \u0110erdap to Jadran”, from Subotica to Podgorica across Vukovar, Sarajevo and thousands of picturesque towns and villages. Like Persian or Hindustani, the Serbo-Croatian language<\/strong> is pluricentric with two perfectly interchangeable and fully equivalent alphabets,\u00a0with two equivalent standards of pronunciation (Ije- and Ekavian)\u00a0unrelated<\/span>\u00a0to political borders (see\u00a0map<\/a>),\u00a0with one single literary \u0160tokavian norm and a number of extra-literary dialects, all\u00a0unrelated to political borders<\/em>\u00a0across the linguistic continuum. Most important: the grammar \u2014 what principally makes a language a language \u2014 is identical<\/em> in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Srpska Republic\u00a0and the Federation of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Without forgetting\u00a0the Br\u010dko district.<\/p>\n

Regional differences in vocabulary are manifold (different areas use different blends of\u00a0Slavic, Turkish, Hungarian, German and other ingredients), but those differences are well-known and intelligible for the speakers from other areas, exactly as is a Hollywood movie<\/em> for a British film<\/em> watcher.\u00a0Croato-Serbian unconditionally\u00a0remains a supranational koin\u00e9 for\u00a020+ million native speakers of this beautiful language.<\/p>\n

Politicians and nationalists blindly ignore this obvious reality. They upgraded regional variants of the common language to a language proper, they invented “Serbian”, “Croatian”, “Bosnian” and “Montenegrin” languages emphasising trivial particularities and leveraging on minor differences.<\/p>\n

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Three TOTALLY identical texts. Political correctness 80 LVL<\/p><\/div>\n

But the common sense should not suffer from this narrow-minded political myopia. Progressive people struggle for promoting the common sense, and this Declaration on the Common Language<\/a> \u00a0signed by a lot of good people is a good example that there is hope.<\/p>\n

If the equation sovereign state = language<\/em> is deemed normal, then I wonder why we still have no “Austrian language”, “Kuwaiti language” or “Australian language”. \u00abDo you speak Nicaraguan?\u00bb \u2014 \u00abNo, sorry, I only speak Salvadorian, please translate\u00bb.\u00a0If being a sovereign state is enough to claim an individual language, then there would exist even two “Belgian languages”, because both Belgian Dutch and Belgian French do have a number of particularities vs. the\u00a0Amsterdam and Paris norms, so why not?\u00a0With this logic I would, as anybody else, have easily tripled or quadrupled the number of spoken languages.<\/p>\n

P.S. The above text was proudly written in Bahamian. Don’t confuse with English!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a language, \u00f3ne language, spoken “from \u0110erdap to Jadran”, from Subotica to Podgorica across Vukovar, Sarajevo and thousands of picturesque towns and villages. Like Persian or Hindustani, the Serbo-Croatian language is pluricentric with two perfectly interchangeable and fully equivalent alphabets,\u00a0with two equivalent standards of pronunciation (Ije- and Ekavian)\u00a0unrelated\u00a0to political borders (see\u00a0map),\u00a0with one single […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,14],"tags":[9],"class_list":{"0":"post-1020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-marrant","8":"category-politica","9":"tag-english","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}