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Turbulent social and political circumstances in the Middle South Slavic language area caused the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the formation of new countries in the 1990s, and this of course was reflected in the demise of the prestigious Serbo-Croatian language and the emergence of new standard languages based on the Stokavian dialect (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin).
April 2000- In the former Yugoslavia, language issues have long been both a reflection of inter-ethnic tensions and a catalyst for deepening inter-ethnic animosities. Since the collapse of the Yugoslav Federation in 1991, the insistence that the Serbo-Croatian language be broken up along ethnic lines has at times resulted in what some analysts have considered to be absurd and unnatural ...
After the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, each of the new countries began setting its own standards of language usage, and the term Serbo-Croatian dropped out of official use. In language studies it is sometimes still used by authors outside the region, but BCS (meaning “Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian”) and, later, BCMS have also become ...
Oct 23, 2019 · Within these limitations, Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian functioned as the official standard language of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks (officially “Muslims in the ethnic sense”) and Montenegrins up to the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991 with the interruption of the Croatian Ustaša state from 1941 to 1945.
It was later replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet, and the modern Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was devised in 1814 by the Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, and the Serbian Latin alphabet was designed by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1830. Serbian is currently written with both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, which are both officially recognised ...
Serbo-Croatian language issues. by Дарко Максимовић. From 1800s up to 1990s big efforts were made by many famous linguists in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and other republics of former Yugoslavia to form a unique name and standard for the Serbo-Croatian language. There were differences between the spoken language in Croatia and Serbia ...
During a large period of the 20th century, the Serbo-Croatian language was spoken throughout the territory of Yugoslavia. It was the official language in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. In 2000, the Serbo-Croatian language was divided into Serbian, Croatian, Bosniak and Montenegrin languages.
