Declaration on the Common Language

Press conference about the Declaration on the Common Language

The Declaration on the Common Language (Serbo-Croatian: Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / Декларација о заједничком језику) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a project called "Language and Nationalism".[1] The Declaration states that Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins and Serbs have a common standard language of the polycentric type.[1]

Great interest of television companies in the Press conference about the Declaration

Before any public presentation, the Declaration was signed by over 200 prominent writers, scientists, journalists, activists and other public figures from the four countries.[2][3] After being published, it has been signed by over 10,000 people from all over the region.[4] The Declaration on the Common Language is an attempt to counter nationalistic factions.[5] Its aim is to stimulate discussion on language without nationalism and to contribute to the reconciliation process.[6]

  1. ^ a b Kordić, Snježana (2024). "Ideology Against Language: The Current Situation in South Slavic Countries" (PDF). In Nomachi, Motoki; Kamusella, Tomasz (eds.). Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires. Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. pp. 172–173. doi:10.4324/9781003034025-11. ISBN 978-0-367-47191-0. OCLC 1390118985. S2CID 259576119. SSRN 4680766. COBISS.SR 125229577. COBISS 171014403. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Trudgill was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Šipka, Danko (2019). Lexical layers of identity: words, meaning, and culture in the Slavic languages. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 168. doi:10.1017/9781108685795. ISBN 978-953-313-086-6. LCCN 2018048005. OCLC 1061308790. S2CID 150383965. 2017, a group of over 200 intellectuals (mostly writers, actors, but also numerous linguists) published a declaration on the common language, which, among others, claimed that Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are not separate languages but rather variants of the common language.
  4. ^ Mader Skender, Mia (2022). "Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku" [Declaration on the Common Language]. Die kroatische Standardsprache auf dem Weg zur Ausbausprache [The Croatian standard language on the way to ausbau language] (PDF) (Dissertation). UZH Dissertations (in German). Zurich: University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Slavonic Studies. pp. 81–84. doi:10.5167/uzh-215815. Retrieved 3 March 2022. p. 82: Die Liste kann auf der genannten Seite eingesehen werden und zählt mittlerweile weit mehr als 10.000 Unterschriften. [The list can be viewed on the mentioned page and now counts well over 10.000 signatures.]
  5. ^ Milekić, Sven (30 March 2017). "Post-Yugoslav 'Common Language' Declaration Challenges Nationalism". London: Balkan Insight. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Economist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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