"If two person, from two different part of the world, speak their mother tongue and don't require a translator to understand each other while speaking - they speak the same language."

Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and Moslems from Bosnia, does not need a translator to understand each other. They can understand each other better than Portuguese understands Brazilians when both speak Portuguese, South African of English descent speaking to an Englishman in English, Frenchman talking to Canadian from Quebec, Peruvian to a Spaniard, or Algerian talking to Iraqi in Arabic. All speaking the same official language.

Good article on the subject, published in Politika daily few days ago:

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Bosko Lomović

It is not the 'neck' but 'the neck'

For dangerous intention to rename the language, politicians always among linguists find their scientists.

Motivated by the recent roundtable of Banja Luka, "Language and the Serbian Republic in a letter," I would say that from the standpoint of the science of language problem does not exist: produced by politicians after dismantling Yugoslavia, because each of them, making "his" country, trying to make "their" language. In all that they had wholeheartedly supported the enlightened West that such a thing at home by no means to support. And on our soil, from Serbian, Serbo-Croatian for some time, nastadoše four languages. The Hague, for example, officially unknown inaugurisaše science be-ha-es (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian) language. No wonder if this will soon expand the abbreviation to be es-ha-ce.

A European linguists is thus defined the notion of a single language: if two people, with any two of the world, each speaking their language and in doing so, they do not need an interpreter as well understand, it means to speak the same language. My journalist friend a solid knowledge of English, but we acknowledged that the most difficult to communicate with Americans.

Recently, on Radio Belgrade, our long man who lives in Portugal, translated from Portuguese to Serbian and vice versa, he said, prefer to talk to Brazilians who live in Lisbon. Brazilians speak better and "softer". Said the man, and that between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese from the Iberian Peninsula is much higher than the difference between Serbian and Croatian.

In a Spanish guide (kastiljanskog) language I found a table of terms for which there are different words in Argentina, Peru, Venezuela and so on. In Johannesburg we have argued that the best English is spoken just in South Africa, which may not be true, but that is different from the one in London - is different. Neither the French in Quebec is not like the French in Paris. However, neither the American nor the Brazilians, or Peruvians or South Africans, even Kvebečanima no intention to call his version of the language the possessive adjective created from the name of their state or province.

Let me get back on our turf. Niska writer Violeta Jovic says on Svrljig-zaplanjskoj variants Prizren-Timok speech. I am sure that an average Šumadinci talking to villagers bullets Dol near Svrljig welcome translator. And just how would this be Šumadinci pains to understand the "Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh" on kajkavian!

Despite this, and Sumadija, and Svrljiški, and Kajkavian belonging to one language. Poet Vlasta Cenić from Doljevac near Nis writes, he says, "the dialect of my village," because the language, even from village to village, different. My friend from the army, was born in Nova Gorica, told me that with the Slovenians from Styria to the efforts of a dialogue, although they speak the same language. In the book of Professor dijalektološki Asim Pece little speech Herzegovina is divided into eastern, central and West. Short, there is no language in the world without dialectological features. But, nota bene, from ancient times until today, yet it is a single language.

Now, our "specificity", probably unique on the globe, is that the production of political knowledge, we prove that the neck is not the same as the Shia. Unfortunately, politicians effort among linguists that the intention of this dangerous yet recruited his "scientists". One must believe that it will be short-lived job.

Journalist and author

Bosko Lomović published: 21.12.2011.