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I’d not put the standardization of European languages’ orthographies before the 19th century. Standardizing the orthography was simply a part of all the social innovations that happened in the 19th century Europe: formation of nation states with national economies and national languages, public educ...

Soap wrote:Still the idea of having a length distinction between long and short syllabic [r] seems difficult for me to accept.

Serbo-Croatian has it.

How old are you? :P The newer generations of all the ethnic groups is fairly homogeneous - we listen to the same music, go out to the same places, etc. Maybe 40+ year olds observe all these traditions you say set Catholics & Coastal Serbs apart from Muslims & Serbian Serbs, but teens and tweens gen...

Bosniak everyday culture is about as different from Croatian culture as New Yorker culture is from Bostonian culture, maybe even less so. I’d still argue YngNghymru is right to an extent, just lacking some wider context there, but still you can find everyday cultural differences between the Croats ...

Not necessarily. Not to open up the whole barrel of worms here again, but Bosniak culture, for example, is quite different from, say, everyday Croatian culture - because of the influence of Islam and other things - despite their languages and inhabited areas being practically identical. It’s debata...