The situation is more complex than that. In
the traditional dialects, the pronunciation [je] or [ije] (as opposed to
Danubian Serbian [e]) is found also in Montenegro, most dialects of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and western Serbia. It even originated in those part and
spread north and northwest in the Middle Ages, as Slavic refugees fled before
the Turks. Montenegrin dialects are _extremely_ "[ije]kavian", whether
their speakers consider themselves Serbian-speaking or not (some are already
arguing that Montenegrin deserves to be regarded as a separate language), and
the literary standard of Montenegro reflects that feature. Liberal Europeanness
has nothing to do with that.
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:20 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: -s -> -i
BTW, I saw that there exists a Montenegrin magazine
"Vijesti",
supposedly modern liberal European etc, so I wondered: Since
Montenegro is supposed Serbian-speaking, and therefore should have
had
e-kanie ("mleko"), not ije-kanie ("mlijeko") as Croatian has, is
the
publisher making a political statment by not calling it "Vesti"?
The
Bosnohrvatskosrpski pages on text TV of Danish state TV
consistently writes
"vijesti/vesti".