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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, March 24, 2001, 19:19
Ferenc Valoczy wrote:
>This little thing annoys me too, namely, that "Yugoslav" today is assumed >to mean "Serb", though besides Serbs there are there a large number of >Hungarians (some 4% of the population) and also Romanians, Bulgarians, >Croats, Sanjak Muslims, Goranci, Macedonians, Slovaks, Turks, Egyptians >and others, making the Serb population of Yugoslavia only about 80%.
Don't forget the Montenegrins - they've even got a republic of their own within the federation. Or do Goranci perhaps mean the same as Montenegrins - I don't think I've seen the name before?
>Also >the term "Kosovar" meaning only "Albanian from Kosovo", thus excluding all >others who live(d) there, like Serbs, Croats, Turks, Hungarians, >Macedonians and others; though it seems recently this problem is being >solved by the Albanians there =/
Hm, I thought "Kosovar" was the catch-all term, while the majority are the "Kosovo-Albanians". Am I misinformed or have the usuage changed? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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