Abstract

ABSTRACT : The study of the South Slavic dialect continuum (from Slovene to Bulgarian, including Serbo-Croat and Macedonian) shows that the linguistic borders between dialects and the political frontiers do not coincide, especially in the case of Serbo-Croat and the states where this language — with its Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian variants — is used. Unlike the 19th Century, when unifying centripetal processes were initiated, the end of the 20th Century is characterized by independentist, centrifugal ones. We shall give some examples of today's language policies, which aim at forcing linguistic and political borders to coincide.

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