Talk:South Slavic Latinic transliterations

I hope to add more, for now I thought it a good idea to start a page devoted to our Latinic script. Ragusan Blocked sock:Moroccan Spaniard.


 * I'm sorry, but this is borderline original research. The simple fact is that latinica means Latin alphabet. The Latin alphabet is not uniformly defined these days, because it's not used only by Latin language - each language using it has its own set of letters.


 * Anyway, what you call Latinic, that is referred to as
 * Croatian Latin alphabet
 * Serbian Latin alphabet
 * Bosnian Latin alphabet


 * And this 'dz' that you mention in the article from Macedonian language, I don't think that's real, because Macedonian uses the (Cyrillic) Macedonian alphabet which can only have a Latin transliteration.
 * Also I don't quite see how Macedonian and Slovenian language fit into the whole picture. This sounds a bit pan-Yugoslavist, and as such exceedingly anachronistic. The old view for the former three is actually preserved nicely at Serbo-Croatian language.


 * I was actually quite surprised to see a large number of Google hits for 'latinic', although it's quite apparent that there aren't any scholarly works in the first few pages where the Latin alphabet is referred to. --Joy &#91;shallot] 11:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * well I had hoped to clean this up a bit. Maybe the project needs reworking, deletion I feel may be harsh because perhaps people unfamiliar with this alphabet and its function accross the Balkans may take an interest. "Latinic" is a poor title, I see that now. Latinica as is so called already has a primary entry as local entertainment; be that as it may, we all speak daily of "Latinica" forgeting about its "Latin" route. I was rushed when I submitted the details and can do better than this; I had hoped to mention the likes of Jan Hus, who introduced the caron (Hachek) etc. Finally, my point about Macedonian was precisely that, the DZ which I think is written as (S) in Cyrillic, apparent in words like "Dzvezda" as opposed to Zvijezda (3B...) is just a transliteration which is all that it is in Serbian/Montenegrin too. The Cyrillic/Latinic national signs prevail in Macedonia even if the nation is on the whole a little more comfortable with Cyrillic unlike Serbia and Montenegro. The title will have to change if this article is to stay: but I am afraid that it is true that this focuses on the former Yugoslavia, after all, the original link was from Serbian Language. But because this writing system is used both primarily and secondarily depending on region, and that it spreads outside of the Serbo-Croat zone whilst not spreading into other areas, and its usage was atleast during the time of Yugoslavia (before and after the Second World War) fairly cohesive, it was worth a seperate entry. I suppose that the best thing to do is merge this with the preexisting entry on the page you mentioned, or perhaps add a few of these details onto the other. I am sure we can delete the page without hurting anyones feelings! :) Ragusan June 29, 2006 Blocked sock:Moroccan Spaniard.


 * I think Serbo-Croatian language is the most relevant location for what you intended with this text, and the bulk of it is already there. That whole article talks about the cohesive period. It is true that this period left a common legacy, but if the aim is to present this, I think it's more effective to quickly explain the commonality in the articles about the present alphabets than to keep this information in yet another separate article with a bad title.
 * The article South Slavic languages is suitable for more general considerations, including Slovenian and Macedonian, and there already exist articles for Slovenian alphabet and the Macedonian alphabet for more particular matters. --Joy &#91;shallot]