Bosnian

[Jouko Lindstedt]

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, P. Hill wrote:

> Under the policy of multiculturalism the Australian Government recognized
>  Croatian and Serbian as separate languages at the beginning of the 1980s. The
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>  provide separte services in the two languages and initially funded programs i
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>  the two languages as separate languages at Macquarie University in Sydney.

Bosnian should now be recognized, too, shouldn't it? Moslem refugees from
Bosnia now consistently state that their language is so called, and even
if its differences from either Croatian or Serbian are not so great, it
would be politically impossible to count Bosnians among the speakers of
either of those two.

Jouko Lindstedt
Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki
e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi
http://www.helsinki.fi/~jslindst/