Posted on 09/02/2013 6:48:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Wielding hammers, Croatian war veterans have torn down signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet that were put up on official buildings to boost minority rights in the new EU nation.
Vukovar has a sizable Serb minority and having official signs in both the Croatian Latin alphabet and Serbian Cyrillic are in line with the countrys law on minority rights.
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The only good thing about the EU is that it makes open conflict between member states much less likely.
“Were it not for Serbian the Croatians wouldn’t have an applicable language.”
S-U-R-E. The Croatians would just be walking around making hand signals ‘cause they wouldn’t have an “applicable language”.
It is a minor difference, but enough to get quite a few Croatians upset.
Is Serbia in the EU? I don’t think it is. Thus, if it isn’t, it’s language wouldn’t have to be an EU language in any case.
The European Union has 24 official and working languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
Notice, many minority languages - used within nations with other official languages - did not make the list: Rhaetio-Romansche, Basque, Welsh, Scotland’s Gaelic, Lapp, Livonian, Csango, Roma, Finnish, etc.
I have no idea why you’re addressing that post to me. Serbian and Croatian are essentially the same language except for alphabet and some vocabulary. I have known that for decades.
No Ebonics? That's retarded.
No matter whom it’s addressed to, everyone can read it. Nothing personal meant by it.
“Like writing English in Cyrillic”, y’know?
Heh, heh, nice transliteration. But the spoken language is “Serbo-Croatian” & it is written in two alphabets.
Now...the real gulf is between Orthodox Serbs who tend to be pro-Russian, and Catholic Croatians & Slovenians who are more Western oriented.
I think we should allow the Croats to make this decision for themselves. I believe the same thing goes for Serbs in Serbia. It’s called self-determination.
I have been listening to the Hardcore History podcasts. They are great, but what strikes me is all the massive killing. First by the Romans to galvanize the west, then the killing spree as the empire fell, then by the Franks to try to hammer it back together, and then the free for all when the Carolingians went down. Not to mention the 1st and 2nd World Wars. I have a feeling this period of history is winding down and we are about to really descend into chaos. I just hope the West unites because a foe has galvanized us and its not West on West war again.
cako se...
The “original” Croatian was so primitive it lacked the sophostication to produce and any meaningful literary works and they eventually adopted Serbian as their primary language.
At least they were smart enough to ditch their ebonics grade dialect for something more acceptable.
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