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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge8/31/2016 4:17:15 am PDT

re: #335 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

according to Wiki:

Serbo-Croatian was standardized in the mid-19th-century Vienna Literary Agreement by Croatian and Serbian writers and philologists, decades before a Yugoslav state was established…The breakup of Yugoslavia affected language attitudes, so that social conceptions of the language separated on ethnic and political lines. Since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnian has likewise been established as an official standard in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is an ongoing movement to codify a separate Montenegrin standard. Serbo-Croatian thus generally goes by the ethnic names Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and sometimes Montenegrin and Bunjevac

I know that Serbo-Croatian is divided into three dialects, but the dialect lines cut straight across these ethnic groupings. These new ethnic names for the same language seem really misleading from a linguistic point of view.