[Wikipedia-l] Re: Status of Serbia and Montenegro chapter

Mon Nov 7 13:42:53 UTC 2005

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Milos Rancic wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>As a bystander here I am really, really confused about
>>Zlatiborian!
> 
> 
> I can explain a little bit of situation here.
> 
> For example, relation Moldovan-Romanian is almost the same as relation
> Montenegrin-Serbian. Except Montenegrins don't have well described
> standard such Moldovans have. Political situation is almost the same:
> Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts says that it is the same
> language as Serbia, but parliament and alternative academy (Duklanian
> Academy) say that this is different language. Only 22% of Montenegrin
> inhabitants say that their native language is Montenegrin (around 60%
> say that their native language is Serbian; others are minorities). So,
> this is a political question and I am supporting now the article
> "Montenegrin language" on English Wikipedia (against one Serbian
> nationalist) as well as I would support existance of Montenegrin
> Wikipedia (if demand comes before we complete our software).
> 
> Linguistic area in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia is divided
> into four dialects: Torlakian, Shtokavian, Chakavian and Kaykavian.
> ALL standard languages (including "Zlatiborian", too) are based on the
> part of Shtokavian dialect called Neo-Shtokavian.
> 
> The problem is that there is no Zlatiborian ethnicity/nation. All of
> that people feel as Serbs, not as anything else. Zlatiborian is only
> regional attribute.
> 
<snip>

So "Zlatiborian" is equivalent to "Londoner", "New Yorker", or "Parisian"?

AND THEY WANT THEIR OWN WIKIPEDIA?????!?!!?

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