НАСИЉЕ НАД ЈЕЗИКОМ
ОN THE LANGUISTIC VIOLENCE

Summary/Abstract: This work addresses the problem of renaming certain parts of indivisible Serbian language in Montenegro into a cumulative mother tongue with four name sub-variants (Serbian, Montenegrin, Bosnian and Croatian). In fact, this represents a lead into the phase of renaming the indivisible Serbian language into the ‘indivisible’ Montenegrin language, which would then be forced upon both Serbs and Montenegrins. This means that an inexistent, linguistically unsupported language is imposed, i.e. a language is promoted based on the state and ethnicity by self-appointed linguists, (in)dependent intellectuals and the governing elite. In contrast to these social structures, there are those who hold a different opinion and who fight for the survival of the Serbian language, which has always existed in Montenegro.

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