Forged in Blood: Croatian

» MirHarven - Strangely obsolete

Hmmm...I doubt the author really knows what he's talking about. "Serbo-Croatian" was a political construct that, despite international recognition, never functioned as one standard language. Now, when Yu collapsed, also did political-linguistic projects associated with it. On more formal level- croatian is different from Serbian form basic phonology (Croatian has got 32 phonemes, Serbian 31), via morphology and syntax to semantics. It's similar to Urdu-Hindi or Malay- Bahasa Indonesia situation. Some basic links and history can be seen at http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/croa...

Peculiarly bizarre is the mention of Croatian Bible, which was, in exactly this form, translated back in 1968. under the clear expression that it was Croatian, and not "Serbo-Croatian" translation. Forged in 500 ys old history, Mr. Henederson.

-- posted by MirHarven

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