Abstract
According to the website of the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics (Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikslovlje, or IHJJ; www.ihjj.hr/institut.html), ‘since its beginnings, in other words already for more than a millennium, the Croatian language has been the fundamental guarantor of the preservation of Croatian identity’. The idea of language as an expression of identity has deep historical roots; for example, in the western tradition we find evidence of this already in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Greek philosophers: 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, art thou an Ephraimite? If he say Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. (Book of Judges, Chapter 12 [King James Version]) KeywordsEthnic IdentityLanguage PolicyNational IdentityStandard VarietySpeech CommunityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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