Linguistic justice

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Student movements in Kosova (1981): academic or nationalist?

“…Notwithstanding Article 243 on the use of languages in the Yugoslav People's Army, in practice, this institution used only the Serbian (Serbo-Croatian) language (Fidahic, March 2016). Articles 154, 171, and 214 provided an enormous advantage for Kosova Albanians over non-Albanian speakers in seeking jobs in the government, which functioned mainly in Albanian.…”

“…In 1929, the kingdom issued a Law on People's Schools (Sluzbene novine Kraljevine Jugoslavije, Official Gazette of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 5 December 1929, CXIX/289) that, in practice, gave language-use and native-language education rights only to German, Hungarian, and Romanian minorities. Nor did the SFRY profit Albanians much initially, as it gave rights only to nations (in Serbian, narodi), not nationalities (narodnosti) , which was the Communist euphemism for minorities (Fidahic, March 2016). As Albanians started reexamining their role in the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, they regularly referred to old wounds inflicted, according to them, by the Ottoman and South Slav occupiers.…”