Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: > So, the issue - the macrolanguage - seems indeed to exist, merely under > - in some "abroad" circles - another name. There is a dialect continuum spoken in four different countries (with outliers elsewhere). There are also two separate standard languages, Serbian and Croatian, which merged for a while (in the sense that users of each agreed to accept the orthography and lexis of the other as also instances of their standard form) and have since separated again. There is an incipient third standard language, and a label for a fourth but no actual separate standard yet, perhaps not ever. Or as a Croat linguist put it to me back in the 1980s. "I am a native speaker of Croatian, and therefore have a native command of Serbian as well." -- An observable characteristic is not necessarily John Cowan a functional requirement. --John Hudson cowan at ccil.org _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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