description: Against a backdrop of the ethnic strife in the Balkans and the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. His first-hand observations before and after Communism offer insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity.
language: English
title: Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration
titlecomplete: Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration
genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Oxford University Press