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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 43 12 February 2010 at 2:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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Serbo-Croatian, Serbian and Croatian are among the languages you can add to your profile. That's funny. Who knows, maybe we'll call it Central South Slavic one day.
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| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6261 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 43 12 February 2010 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'll just never understand why isn't Bosnian on the list.
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5402 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 43 12 February 2010 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Because it is new while Serbian and Croatian are centuries old. Bosnian did not exist before the 1990's (at least I think), the Bosnians called their language either Serbian or Croatian. It just didn't catch up yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6261 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 12 of 43 13 February 2010 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, you are wrong, we have documents telling us about the Bosnian language from the 11th century. So again I see no reason why it isn't included in the list, as it is an official language in 3 countries, in some regions of 2 countries more and it is has it's official regulation. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| trance0 Pentaglot Groupie Slovenia Joined 5749 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Slovenian*, English, German, Croatian, Serbian | Message 13 of 43 14 February 2010 at 8:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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I almost find this BCS situation ridiculous. We have Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and now Montenegrin in the making. But basically this is all just one language, previously known as Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian. These 'languages' are no more different from each other than Austrian Standard German from Standard German in Germany or British English from American or Australian English. Every time an ex Yugoslav republic gains independence I can add another language to the list of languages that I speak. Don`t you find this a little absurd? :D Edited by trance0 on 14 February 2010 at 8:55am 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hanni aka cordelia0507 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 69 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 14 of 43 14 February 2010 at 9:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Perhaps the speakers of these languages could standardise it (using great sensitivity and fairness) then select a new joint name which was "neutral". The new language could then be gradually introduced and in a few decades it would be a fairly major language in Europe... As opposed to splitting it up into increasingly smaller languages/dialects and ending up making it completely marginalised and unimportant plus confusing to everyone else in Europe. I find this language interesting and I think it's a pity that it's become so charged up with political concerns that its merits as a language are overshadowed.
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| trance0 Pentaglot Groupie Slovenia Joined 5749 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Slovenian*, English, German, Croatian, Serbian | Message 15 of 43 14 February 2010 at 10:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, this will probably not happen in my life time, if ever! There were wars in all these contries and well, it just seems their inhabitants would rather have small separate languages than one big unified/ unifying language for the whole region. Edited by trance0 on 14 February 2010 at 10:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aineko Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5447 days ago 238 posts - 442 votes Speaks: Serbian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 16 of 43 14 February 2010 at 10:08am | IP Logged | |||||
wait, you are aware that you are talking about the Balkans? :) :) :) there's no such thing there as 'neutral'...(unfortunately) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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