The division between Serbian and Croatian isn't necessarily a barrier
to information the way this "artificial" language barrier you speak of
is. A Serb can get information from the Croatian Wikipedia if they
want without having to "learn" a new language.
2008/9/8 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/9/8 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu>yu>:
Oh I
don't know the level of English spoken in say Poland is quite
impressive.
So?
It means that when there isn't an nationalist region to oppose a
language which provides access to greater information and
opportunities it's use can become widespread.
(Most)
human languages arose spontaneously, without conscious effort, and
so barriers among them are natural and not artificial.
Serbian though is a dialect of Serbo-Croatian where the barrier is
highly artificial (and people now want to divide it further with
Montenegrin).
No, actually, Serbo-Croatian is a dialect of Serbian.
Sigh. Trying to claim that the Central South Slavic diasystem is a
dialect of Serbian is unhelpful.
And the barrier is highly non-existant.
We have wikipedias in both serbian and croat. So this non existent barrier?
An
increasing number of languages only exist through large scale
government support. Increasing levels of international communication
means that we should see non major languages start to die off.
So?
I see no reason to interfere with the natural die off.
--
geni
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