Diasystem not a single language

Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian are not one language nor have they ever been one. All three now official standards have separate histories and developments and althouh mutually intelligible they are not and cannot be one language ... least some fantasy 'Serbo-Croatian' which existed only on paper and had two official variants - western (Croatian) and eastern (Serbian). Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian are all part of the same Central-South Slavic diasystem, same as Continental and Insular Scandinavian diasystems or the similar Czech-Slovak diasystem, and have always been as such.

Sent by: K.R.

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