Talk:Declaration on the Common Language

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Italics

Do we really need italics? This isn't a book. 98.143.79.127 (talk) 15:32, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note on Nationalists singling out signatories

Nationalist and right-wingers (neo-nazi supporters) who are associated with Croatian Wikipedia have systematically introduced info on signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language as a way to single out what they perceive as traitors to Croatian national identity. This act makes signatories a frequent target of right-wing/nationalist media in Croatia. --2020W (talk) 06:36, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fortunately, they are irrelevant for our project, so is their impact here.--౪ Santa ౪^99° 22:17, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Common Language WITHOUT NAME? =

Serbs have the oldest calendar of the world that counts Year 7529 (in roman 2020/2021/). Also the oldest archeological sites as Vinca, Lepenski Vir, Starcevo, Nis... are Serbian sites where Paleolithic people with same genetic code I2a as todays Serbs have been found! Google: Serbian Paleolithic genes. Now, their language can not be called SERBIAN? There is no name of the common language because Croats (catholized Serbs) and Bosniacs (islamized Serbs) do not want to call it SERBIAN ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8A0:6067:3400:2874:57E5:7184:7A5E (talk) 10:25, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Calendar and genes (even if true) have nothing to do with language and ethnic identification. When Slavs spread their language to the Balkans in the 600s they spoke only one single language, Proto-Slavic, which they called Slověnĭskŭ, not Serbian. Through the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period, as the South Slavic languages diverged away and differentiated, the Western South Slavic language in question had many different names, from common names like slovinski and ilirski to regional names like srpski, hrvatski, dubrovacki, etc. In short, your argument has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. Vorziblix (talk) 14:15, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

POV problem

Signatories are mostly serbian, the croat ones are just actors and directors. This should be reflected in the article, because this is how the idea of Yugoslavia started, by valuing serb voices more then croat voices. Also it should be noted that this declaration ignores historical facts, it only hangs on the idea of serbo-croatian that existed in Yugoslavia. What about all the croatian writes centuries before yugoslavia that wrote in croatian whose books are still being read in schools?! What about the book from Vuk Draskovic that says in it's beginning that 'serbs need their own language, croats already have theirs' and then proceds to rip off croatian writers to form modern serbian?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.252.199.174 (talk) 01:29, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You all speak the same language, the majority based on one dialect. In English, that is known as Serbo-Croatian. End of story. 50.111.34.139 (talk) 04:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Serb hysteria

Both maps in this article are clear evidence of Anti-Serbian propaganda. First map reflects the majority people of Serbia by ethnicity (except Bosniaks) and not by the language, data used for Kosovo region come from population census of 2011 which was boycotted by majority of Serb and non-Albanian population. Second map exclude whole Kosovo like there are no speakers of common language there, although constitution of Serbia and constitution of majority unrecognized Kosovo clearly say that Serbian(part of Common language) is official language. Both maps favor borders of minority recognized by whole world(UN member States and world population) Albanian separatist state. This is exactly the same way and policy from 1945/74 to the present day how it was worked in communist Yugoslavia and beyond to infinity, we can have everything in common, language, state, culture... but at the expense of Serbian people and Serbian lands. That′s not gonna work again and Serbians learned a lesson to not have nothing in common with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.135.250.235 (talk) 06:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Now if someone from Bosnia or Montenegro could post a similar rant accusing this article of bias, it would finally attain consensual neutrality (if everyone thinks it's biased towards everyone else, it mustn't be biased--147.210.179.67 (talk) 13:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ridiculous rant, non-constructive to the article. 50.111.34.139 (talk) 04:09, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Several lists

The page contains three lists of supporters. Wouldn't a common list be wrong?Xx236 (talk) 12:08, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The first list is about linguists, and most of them don't have articles on English Wikipedia. The second list is about people (not necessarily linguists) with articles on English Wikipedia, and for some reason placed inside the same table as text. Those two could be merged. The third list is a list of interviews and media articles made by some of these signatories, nothing to merge in this one. It's a good idea, you're not wrong. -Vipz (talk) 10:51, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It would be good to leave a separate list of linguists because some critics claim that there are no linguists among the signatories.--Darigon Jr. (talk) 06:42, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your heart's in the right place, but Wiki is not based on nationalist knee-jerk reactions to the activities of the Balkan states. That would give those idiots too much attention. We go by Reliable Sources.