The Role of Language in the Creation of Identity: Myths in Linguistics among the Peoples of the Former Yugoslavia
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“The Slovene literary language is alive and well in the Republic of Slovenia in Yugoslavia, where it is functionally almost completely self-contained and whose speakers are politically, and more especially, economically successful, culturally and in civilizational terms, above the average Yugoslav. However, [the Slovenes] are still all too unaware that it is their literary language to which they are fatefully tied, and that they will either stand or fall along with it.” (Toporišič 1982: 459)
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