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 | | A diasystem is a language which has two recognized official standardized dialects, for instance, the eastern and western variants of Serbo-Croatian, or the British and American variants of standard English. |
 | | Writers, linguists, and public figures responded, and the debate led to a meeting where the fate of a unified language would be decided. |
 | | In 1954, noted Serbian and Croatian intellectuals and writers reached a somewhat vague Agreement at Novi Sad; all variants of the language were combined into a diasystem known as Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, Croatian, or Serbian, which had two variants, eastern and western. |
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