The Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language ( hr, Deklaracija o nazivu i položaju hrvatskog književnog jezika) is the statement adopted by Croatian scholars in 1967 arguing for the equal treatment of the Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian language standards in Yugoslavia. Its demands were granted by the

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The declaration was published on March 13, 1967 in the ''Telegram'', Yugoslav newspapers for social and cultural issues, nr. 359, March 17, 1967. The Declaration affirms that Serbian and Croatian are linguistically the same, but demands separate language standards, each with their own "national" language name. This document addressed the

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and the Assembly of

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, stating: The signers of the declaration demanded the equality of the four Yugoslav language standards and the use of the Croatian literary language in schools and media. State authorities were accused of imposing an official state language.

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The demands were rejected, and the

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(MASPOK) movement was stopped. However, the Declaration was taken into consideration in the new Yugoslav constitution of 1974. Nearly all requests were granted in the formulation, and it remained in effect until the

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. The Declaration prompted

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to respond with his 1971 monograph ''Srpski narod i njegov jezik'' ("The Serbian People and Their Language"). In 2012,

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publicly claimed that that long-standing State Security agent 'Forum' contributed to the writing of the Declaration, which journalists attributed to

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. The same year, a 1997 manuscript by a Zadar university professor Ante Franić was published that had implicated Brozović, at the time one of his colleagues, in a similar manner. On the publication's 45th anniversary in 2012, the Croatian weekly journal ''Forum'' republished the Declaration, accompanied by a critical analysis. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, a new

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of the Croats, Montenegrins, Serbs and Bosniaks was written in 2017 in

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* Croatian

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* Various departments of

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and the

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and in

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* The association of the literary translators of Croatia (Društvo književnih prevodilaca Hrvatske)

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''Deklaracija o nazivu i položaju hrvatskog književnog jezika'' published in ''Telegram'', "Yugoslav newspapers for social and cultural questions, nr. 359, 17 March 1967 {{Croatian language Serbo-Croatian language Croatian language 1967 in Croatia 1967 documents Linguistics Linguistic controversies Language policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia

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