Re:Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
by zozbot234 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:48PM
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Serbo-Croatian is a family of very closely related languages. There are some differences in lexicon and script, but there are also differences among varieties of English. And you could write English down using a different script like Devanagari, but this would not somehow make it into a different language.
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Re:Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
by dragandj on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:59PM
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> There are some differences in lexicon and script
Even this is only to a point; namely, all these languages use Latin alphabet, while Serbian also uses Cyrillic (Serbian uses both alphabets). Croatian originally used Glagolitic script (many centuries ago). This Latin/Cyrillic division is caused by Catholic/Orthodox church split and Habsburg/Ottoman empire border rather than being some central feature in languages.