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That's very interesting. Thank you. Which cultures have gone to war over language? I'd like to educate myself on their history, and try to understand how som
by sillysaurus3 12y ago
That's very interesting. Thank you. Which cultures have gone to war over language? I'd like to educate myself on their history, and try to understand how something like language was one of the primary reasons for something as serious as a war.
- sho_hn 12y agoNicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a journey through human history as seen through a lense of expanding, contracting and competing languages spheres. Well worth a read.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoThanks so much!
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoFor an example of a "sensitive" language situation see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian >In the 20th century, Serbo-Croatian served as the official language of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (when it was called "Serbo-Croato-Slovenian"),[9] and later as one of the official languages of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The dissolution 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.[10] This is also a great article on the topic http://www.rferl.mobi/a/Serbian_Croatian_Bosnian_or_Montenegrin_Many_In_Balkans_Just_Call_It_Our_Language_/1497105.html http://www.rferl.mobi/a/Serbian_Croatian_Bosnian_or_Monteneg...