Serbia, German in some part of France, Italian in the
Slovenia, the wealth of major cultures with whom
they live? Isn’t the common life, sometimes completely different language traditions one of the greatest cultural and civilisatian achievement that we
are taught by our European magistra vitae. Does the
worry for the minority isn’t the only way of keeping
the endangered cultural inheritage? And the height
of irony was that this happened in Croatia that lost
the Dalmatian language- small Roman language
used on the area of Dalmatia only about hundred
years ago. The height of irony also was that the manipulation with the Cyrilic happened even in Serbia,
where the highly educated youth doesn’t know the
basic differences between the Slavonic (Old Slavic)
and Serboslavonic language.
In the end it seems to me that the issue of the
Cyrilic isn’t observed through the prism of culture
or scientific linguistics. Like many other culturological problems, this one was boiled down to the
level of below-the-belt political discourse. That is
what scares me most. Topics, that should