Re: Newest natlang?

It's that old maxim again, about dialects with armies...

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From: "Jörg Rhiemeier" <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:02 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: Newest natlang?

> Hallo!
>
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:50:31 -0600, Scotto Hlad wrote:
>
>> I was doing a little reading on Wikipedia and found the following:
>>
>> “Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the late 19th century,
>> when
>> it began to be recognised as a distinct language…”
>>
>> Are there any languages that one could consider “new” than Afrikaans?
>
> Serbo-Croat was considered a single language until 1991
> - now we have Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and even Montenegrin.
>
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