Is Serbo-Croatian a language?
Or is it actually four distinct tongues?
Or is it actually four distinct tongues?
Pure Croatians are the perfect example. They hadn't been nationally defined till mid XIX Century. At that time, Ljudevit Gaj, a "Croatian" reformer, put an effort to define them. For that reason he took Serb's language as a Croatian language standard for all the Croatians. They had to learn this new language as a foreign language putting some resistance, even. Some of them have not learnt the Serb's language to this day and are unable to correctly pronounce some sounds (Dž, Č, Ć). Croatians haven't stolen the language only, but also some national customs and human resources, because Serbs converted to Catholicism became Croatians! The similar "language problem" faced new "nations" created out of Serb's national corpus by Tito's commies - "Macedonians", "Montenegrians", and islamized Serbs in Bosnia, called Muslims, mixing the religion and a "nation" during the Tito's Era, and renamed as "Bosniaks" during post-Tito's NATO era. Logically, they all speak the dialect of Serb's language, and generally use the grammar of Serb's language written by Serb language reformer Vuk Karadzic born in Serbia in the Trsic village. Tito has found a Solomonic solution naming Serb's language - Serbo-Croatian in Serbia, and Croato-Serbian language in Croatia in the name of "national harmony and unity" in former Yugoslavia. NATO post-Tito's Era "invented" a new name - BCS (Bosniak-Croatian-Serb's language) used in Hague Tribunal. What had started idiotically, continues idiotically. Finally a piece of advice - there are no "Bosnian Serbs", "Kosovo Serbs", "Croatian Serbs". This is an insidiously attempt to divide Serb's national corpus. There are Serbs, only. |

