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The official language was called "Serbo-Croato-Slovenian" (srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenački) in the 1921 constitution. In 1929, the constitution was suspended, and the country was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, while the official language of Serbo-Croato-Slovene was reinstated in the 1931 constitution.
Russian, English, French. Languages of Yugoslavia are all languages spoken in former Yugoslavia. They are mainly Indo-European languages and dialects, namely dominant South Slavic varieties ( Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene) as well as Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Italian, Venetian, Balkan Romani, Romanian, Pannonian ...
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Apr 10, 2017 · SOME 17m people in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro speak variations of what used to be called Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian. Officially though, the language that once united Yugoslavia ...
(This also shows that “standard language” and “official language” are categorically different notions, which must not be confused even though they often coincide in reality; and as regards linking the language to a common state, Serbo-Croatian had existed in some form long before the creation of Yugoslavia in 1918, so there is no ...
Serbian linguists were ill prepared for the demise of the unified Serbo-Croatian language in 1991 and found themselves scrambling to create a new linguistic order. While die Croatian linguists in socialist Yugoslavia had long advocated a separate literary language called Croatian, rather than Croato-Serbian, the Serbs had continued to insist on ...
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.
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 ...
