Message from @KoalaBear
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By true Slovene you mean living inside Slovenia?
All around the world I mean
Ah, alright.
Most slovenes outside slovenia are more aware of their herritage than people here
Yugoslav propaganda taught in school
fuggin surbs
We were to learn their "serbocroatian" common language for mutual understandment
Like "oh were actually the same nation but please learn propper yugoslav"
Like fuck off back to serbia
How could you make a mixed language out of two languages with entirely different alphabets, though?
Even the name serb is stollen
Goddamn
Lausitz sorbs came into contact with turkic mercinaries and then they renamed themselfs
I know Croatian and Serbian do sound similar orally, though.
It's because the language is actually the same, just magyarisation and development
Štokavština
you must understand
The istrian and the north slavonian people actually speak slovene
Oh yeah, the old Kingdom of Hungary included a lot of Croatian territory.
Slovene horvath and serb horvath that's the Horvath nation
You must understand
It was an old Personal Union or something.
Hervat means "border guard" "someone who fights feircly"
Herat means to skin off and Vard - Vart -Vat means "guard"
Kewl
Originally croatia was a province in modern day Lika
Then the mercinaries came and settled in with the indeginous people, the dalmatinci-slovenes
With the ottoman empire spreading, they had to retreat to "slavonia" which is a falesly translated version of the dialectical "slovenijeh"
Remember that latin pronounciation thing"
Well the latins had a hard time pronouncing "slo"
Yes, I do.
Hrvat (Croat)
see?
Hrvatska, Croatia.
Hrovat or hungarian Horvath
The -ska- suffix means "land of"
Land of the Croats
Or full name "-ska dežela"
-ish land
Originally it was a frontline right?