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Croatian is a standardized register of a language which is also spoken by Serbs, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins. In English, this language is generally called "Serbo-Croat(ian)". Use of that term in English, which dates back at least to 1864 and was modeled on both Croatian and Serbian nationalists of the time, is not a political endorsement of Yugoslavia, but is simply a label. As long as it remains the common name of the language in English, it will continue to be used here on Wikipedia.
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This article has become another battleground. Enough is, quite frankly, enough of the edit warring, as the article is now protected for the fourth time since July due to it. We're going to try something new. Starting now, this article; under the discretionary sanctions authorised in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia; is hereby placed on a 1RR restriction. This means one revert, per user, per day. This restriction is per person, not per account. The most obvious vandalism is excepted from this restriction, and I do mean obvious. This restriction applies to all users, and I will place an edit notice of this for the article. Any appeals should be directed towards my talk page in the first instance, or Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement in the second. Courcelles11:52, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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It is not correct that Croatian language is part of the Serbo-Croatian language. The name Serbo-Croatian language (spoken in Serbia Republic of Yugoslavia) was created during the Yugoslavia time, as well as the Croatian-Serbian language which was 'spoken' in Croatia Republic of Yugoslavia. Please delete this incorrect and misleading statement. Wiksources (talk) 17:38, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
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In the 'Writing systems' section, add 'Arabica (historical)' due to Glagolitic and Bosnian Cyrillic having been listed as historically used writing systems. Zalihost (talk) 20:51, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not understand the logical connection that is supposed to be expressed by the "due to". Glagolitic and Bosnian Cyrillic have been used by Croats (Catholics), there's no doubt about that. That doesn't say anything about their usage of arabica (arebica), which was a writing system primarily used by Muslims/Bosniaks. I've managed to find only some tenuous claims that Croats used arabica (the author includes Mehmed Erdeljac and Hasan Kaimija in the Croatian literary corpus – but those names don't sound typically Croatian...). If you have some better sources for this topic that go into more detail, please point to them. – Phazd (talk|contribs) 17:47, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 14:23, 29 May 2024 (UTC)