It is known, even to a person to whom the entire study of

language isn't familiar, that the language is the greatest factor

on which most of the human activities depend. Without any form of

language, any cooperation and communication would be almost, if not

totally impossible (World Book Encyclopedia 62). This significance

of language is what draws scientists to study origin, differences

Constant change of today's languages is what amazes linguists

even more. With the emergings of the new nations there was quite a

number of new languages. One such case is the language of Former

Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, which is now called Croatian by Croats,

Bosnian by Bosnians, and Serbian by Serbs. Though these languages

were once united and actually dialects of one another, they split

as the three nations split. With this came huge amounts of new

words in Croatian and Bosnian which caused the Serbo-Croatian to

There are few conditions that keep a language unchanged. They

include a stable government, good communication, a centralized

educational system, a set of beliefs and traditions,

"Language has been called the most powerful drug known to

called linguae francae, which in Italian means Frankish language,

decide which language should belong to which group by comparing the

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