>That Serbian, Croation, and Bosnian are separate languages appears to be a politically-convenient
>fiction that wants to enforce differences that don't really exist. That can only tend to enforce
>component-nation-specific POVs and thus violate NPOV (as would having separate Wikipedais for
>Simplified and Traditional Chinese).
The existence of a single Serbo-Croatian language was a
political fiction, enforced and maintained by a communist
dictatorship which imprisoned people for speaking their
mind out loud, fired them from their jobs and made it impossible
for them to get another one, and also kept secret police files on
large parts of the population.
Unsurprisingly, the fiction collapsed together with the
dictatorship. Today this idea is considered outlandish
by almost all speakers of Croatian and Bosnian (and a great majority
of Serbian speakers). That there are still some Serbs who
stick to this fiction is probably due to the fact that their
language (Serbian) had favored status within the Serbo-
Croatian fiction (ie it was almost exclusively used by
the army, diplomacy, federal service etc.).
Thank you,
Elephantus
from the Croatian Wikipedia
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