Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

[Adam Cohen-Siegel Ucberkeley]

all,

Regarding the question of the existence of non-existence of separate
literary languages in the former constituent republics of the sfrj which
used some form of s-c as their literary standard, i would like to hear
from some of our counterparts in the former sfrj who are no doubt
actively codifying new grammars, dictionaries, orthographies, and so forth.

there are many historical precedents in language planning for consciously
differentiating a literary language from its neighbors: macedonian is a
prime example.  it gets harder and harder to argue that serbian and
croatian are indeed one language (they've been officially considered two
distinct variants of a common 'language' for years).  calls for
recognition of bosnian and montenegrin as separate variants/languages go
back at least as far as the late 60s, and doubtless unofficially prior to
that.  perhaps language planners from all the former republics should get
together and cordon off separate distinctive features in phonology,
lexicon, and syntax.

Are there anyone on this list who knows what the current planning
situation in the former SFRJ is?

Adam Cohen-Siegel
Department of Linguistics
University of California - Berkeley