This piece first provides a brief overview of the history of the language-politics interface for the ethnic groups speaking the main language of the former Yugoslavia: Serbo-Croatian. Secondly, it ...
Which is to say that ‘warm’ in Croatia is not the same as ‘warm’ in Scandinavia. We use words and phrases to communicate some kind of information – from basic facts to complex emotions. But languages ...
In the former Yugoslavia, language issues have long been both a reflection of inter-ethnic tensions and a catalyst for deepening inter-ethnic animosities. Since the collapse of the Yugoslav Federation ...
Learning a new language doesn’t happen overnight ... which took fourth place with 608 points. Croatia, Portugal, Denmark, Greece and Austria made up the rest of the top level category.