Wow, how many linguists and historians. Please put some evidence or thesis that supports your theories. All of Anglo-American "linguists" are mock by European tonglorers. Your whole concept is flawed, i don't really know why, perhaps because you have no sense for history of language, why ? well that is certain, simply because Modern English is a some sort of bastard-language which came to being by brutal rape of native Germanic English tonge by French speaking Normans, thus creating "English language". So this historical discomfort and uneasiness of raped English, makes Anglo-American "linguists" a sort of mockery. This whole article is a nothing but mockery. Croatian language is a unique language from beginning of time (from 8th century), there are tens of thousands documents, books, scripts, stone engravings... to prove that. Just because someone in 19th century decided that this two languages should be one proves nothing. And now even after 120 years of rape, Croatian bears heavy scars but is still unique and separate language. To prove otherwise please, give some linguistic evidence to support that. But you can't, can you? 95.178.137.44