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| Varying Form of Title: | Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration
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| ISBN: | 9781429469371
1429469374
9780191514555
0191514551
1280837543
9781280837548
9780199258154
0199258155
9786610837540
6610837546
0199258155
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous stan.
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| Other form: | Print version: Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David). Language and identity in the Balkans. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0199258155 9780199258154
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