Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and Montenegrins should have a common language: 200 experts signed a declaration

After a series of regional conferences held in Podgorica, Split, Belgrade and Sarajevo, more than 200 experts in linguistics and other social sciences have signed a Declaration of common language.

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The Declaration is the result of the project "Language and nationalism" which aims to raise awareness of the language, in order to actively influence the existing nationalist linguistic practice in all four countries of the region in which they speak Serbo-Croatian or Croatian-Serbian language.

The exact content of Declaration made by 30 linguist experts of all four states is still unknown. 

IT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ALL CITIZENS 

The text of the Declaration and its goals will be presented on March 30 in Sarajevo by professor Enver Kazaz, writer Ivana Bodrozic, writer and journalist Balsa Brkovic, writer Vladimir Arsenijevic from Krokodil Association, and director of the Center for Cultural Decontamination, Borka Pavicevic.

The text of the Declaration will become available to all interested citizens on 1 April on the website "jezicinacionalizmi.com" where those who support it will be able to give their signature support, reports Radio Sarajevo.

Declaration was so far signed by more than two hundred linguists, writers, scientists, activists and other prominent public figures from the Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

Among others, the declaration was signed by Rade Serbedzija, Boris Dezulović, Igor Stiks, Mirjana Karanovic, Marko Tomas, Nenad Velickovic, Teofil Pancic, Rajko Grlic, Filip David, Borka Pavicevic, Jasmila Zbanic, Dragan Markovina, Boris Buden, Viktor Ivancic, Biljana Srbljanovic, Ranko Bugarski, Balsa Brkovic and Snjezana Kordic.

The basic intention of this project is the consideration of the question whether there are four "political" language on the territory of the former Croatian-Serbian / Serbo-Croatian, through open dialogue of linguists and other experts.

Precisely because the unprincipled linguistic science intersects with identity politics, and in spite of the required and attained emancipation, as well as the formal existence of the four standards of identity-linguistic passions have not calmed down, and thesis about "fifty years of language slavery" and a range of misinterpretations still persist.

These are the reasons why the four partner organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia launched a project LANGUAGES AND NATIONALISM, in cooperation with the Working Group of the project, consisting of the most influential experts in this field: Prof. Dr. Snjezana Kordic, Prof. Dr. Hanka Vajzovic, Prof. Dr. Ranko Bugarski and Bozena Jelusic. The project is supported by the Allianz Kulturstiftung and Forum ZFD.

(Telegraf.co.uk)