| | Serbo-Croatian Language Encyclopedia Article @ HillCountryArts.com (Hill Country Arts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In the mid 19th century, Serbian (led by Vuk StefanoviÄ KaradžiÄ) and Croatian writers and linguists (represented in Illyrian movement led by Ljudevit Gaj and Äuro DaniÄiÄ) decided to use the most widespread Å tokavian dialect as a basis for their standard languages. |
| | Due to the unitarian politics of king Aleksandar I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘eviÄ, as of 1929 the official language of Yugoslavia was called "Yugoslavian" and all ethnic denominations erased. |
| | The topic of language with the writers from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik prior to the 19th century is somewhat blurred by the fact they by and large placed more emphasis on whether they were Slavic rather than Italic, given that Dalmatian city-states were then inhabited by those two main groups. |
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