2006-11-20 00:44:44 · 6 answers · asked by Tina R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No. The best description of "Yugoslavia" is "That part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which did not speak either German or Hungarian". In other words, everything else, which was a group of Slavic languages and a bit of Albanian.
EDIT: Skb, how can you disagree with me? You said EXACTLY the same thing I did, "Yugoslavia never had a common language, it was a pot of several different languages". LOL. I guess you never heard of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and don't know the history of the region before and just after World War I, so in that case, you may not understand my comment on the matter.
2006-11-20 02:05:34 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes. It was serbo-croatian language. It was the official lanugage that was used in some secotrs like the army. It was also an obligatory school subject. Since 1991 Serbia has it's Serbian language and Croatia - Croatian. So serbo-croatian doesn't exist any more. But they are very similar languages.
2006-11-20 05:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by sobi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Serb-Croatian or Croat-Serbian, Slovenian and Macedonian were 3 official languages, also Albanian was used in Kosovo and partially in Macedonia. Serb-Croatian or Croat-Serbian was used in the army and politics. But in Macedonia and Slovenia official languages were Macedonian and Slovenian.all 3 languages are in the southern group of Slavic languages. from Serb-Croatian now there are the following languages: Serbian(Cyrillic and Latin writing), Bosnian(Latin) ,Croatian(Latin). they ere very similar . together with Slovenian are in west group of southern group of Slavic languages.while Macedonian and Bulgarian are in the Eastern group of southern group of Slavic languages. I understand all languages from ex Yu except Albanian.i don't agree with Taivo and martox45 explanation.
To Taivo: Serbia, Macedonia,Montenegro were never part of Habsburgh Monarchy. Also Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the empire for only 30 years. before that was under Turkish rule.
Also all these countries existed even before in the medieval before they were occupied by Austria
2006-11-20 07:03:04 · answer #3 · answered by skb 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, Serbo-Croatian was the most widespread, but to say it was THE language of Yugoslavia would come as a surpise to the Slovenians and Macedonians just for starters.
I'd never heard Taivo's definition before - but that's dead on. Thanks, Taivo - I'll plagarize that one.
2006-11-20 04:51:33 · answer #4 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No,never. This nation has been always a confederation of different regions which language is totally different. Not only language but also population was belonging to different etnic groups. Hence all their difficulties in communicating each other.
2006-11-20 00:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by martox45 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes they did.
It is called Serbocroat, "srbski-hrvatski" and was used throughout the country as the official language.
I even started to learn it at one time.
Dobar dan.
2006-11-20 03:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋