Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language explained

Document Name:	Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language
Date Created:	March 17, 1967
Location Of Document:	Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia

The Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language (Croatian: Deklaracija o nazivu i položaju hrvatskog književnog jezika) is the statement adopted by Croatian scholars in 1967 arguing for the equal treatment of the Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian language standards in Yugoslavia.^[1] Its demands were granted by the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution.

Content

The declaration was published on March 13, 1967 in the Telegram, Yugoslav newspapers for social and cultural issues, nr. 359, March 17, 1967.

The Declaration affirms that Serbian and Croatian are linguistically the same, but demands separate language standards, each with their own "national" language name.

This document addressed the Sabor of SR Croatia and the Assembly of SFR Yugoslavia, stating:

Notes and References

Book: Gröschel, Bernhard. Bernhard Gröschel . 2009 . de . Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik . Serbo-Croatian Between Linguistics and Politics . Lincom Studies in Slavic Linguistics 34 . Munich . Lincom Europa . 36–47 . 978-3-929075-79-3 . 428012015 . 15295665W . 2009473660 .