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- Title
Dialects, Migrations, and Ethnic Rivalries: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Authors
Greenberg, Robert D.
- Abstract
This article investigates the interface between dialect, ethnic identity, and political developments in the rural communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the cultural and linguistic differences among Croats, Serbs, and Muslims have been most pronounced. On the basis of a fresh reanalysis of linguistic data which have previously been cited in the literature to aggrandize the differences, it is argued that the claims of Bosnia's Serb, Croat, and Bosniak communities for separate identities based on the criteria of language are dubious, and that the language differences are relatively minor. It is further suggested that only certain key ethnolinguistic markers have been used to construct the notion of separate linguistic identities there.
- Subjects
BOSNIA &; Herzegovina; DIALECTS; ETHNICITY; CULTURAL identity; CROATIAN language; SERBIAN language; BOSNIAN language; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 1/2, p193
- ISSN
1068-2090
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsl.0.0022