From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 24797 Date: 2003-07-24
24-07-03 22:48, S & L wrote:
> are Croatian & Serbian two "very closely related languages" OR the dialects
> of the same language [named .?]
They are two _official languages_, both underlain by a dialect continuum
known as Serbo-Croatian (which includes varieties more different from
either standard "Serbian" or standard "Croatian" than they are different
from each other). The status of official languages is more a question of
politics than of applying linguistic criteria.