Hrvatski jezik između dviju jezičnih normi – ili koji je to hrvatski standardni jezik?

Abstract

The Croatian Language Act finally put a crown on development of the Croatian language in whole in terms of protecting the language from arbitrary foreign influences. However, the road of standardization itself and the development of the literary language were thorny, especially in the 19th century. In the last decade of the 19th century, The Croatian language went through
large transformation. The Illyrian norm, or rather the norm of the Zagreb philological school, was replaced by the norm that developed followers of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for the purpose of linguistic and national rapprochement of Serbs and Croats. Since then, the Croatian language has been struggling with the persistent imposition of serbisms. The question is how successfully this has been done and whether the norm of the Zagreb Philological School was still better, and should not have been abandoned despite the pressures of Serbian and Yugoslavian unitarism?