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Faced with the negative social, cultural and economic consequences of political manipulations of language in the current language policies in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, we the undersigned issue the following

<{{center>|'''DECLARATION ON THE COMMON LANGUAGE'''</center>}}

The answer to the question whether a common language is used in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia is affirmative.

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===Signatories===

[[File:Noam Chomsky portrait 2017.jpg|thumb|right|140px|[[Noam Chomsky]] has [[Signature|signed]] the ''Declaration'']]

The British [[Sociolinguistics|sociolinguist]] [[Peter Trudgill]] notes that "''linguists are well represented on the list of signatories.''"<ref name="Trudgill">{{cite web|last=Trudgill|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Trudgill|date=30 November 2017|page=46|title=Time to Make Four into One|url=https://archive.org/details/PeterTrudgillTimeToMakeFourIntoOne2017|publisher=[[The New European]]|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> The most famous linguist "''[[Noam Chomsky]] has signed the Declaration on the common language''", which has been particularly resounding.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vučić|first=Nikola|title=Noam Chomsky potpisao Deklaraciju o zajedničkom jeziku|trans-title=Noam Chomsky Has Signed the Declaration on the Common Language|language=sh|url=https://ba.n1info.com/kultura/a250910-noam-chomsky-potpisao-deklaraciju-o-zajednickom-jeziku/|date=27 March 2018|archive-date=1 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501053244/http://ba.n1info.com/a250910/Vijesti/Vijesti/Noam-Chomsky-potpisao-Deklaraciju-o-zajednickom-jeziku.html|url-status=live|___location=Sarajevo|publisher=[[N1 (TV channel)|N1]]|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> The Declaration has been signed by "over fifty other linguists, including Anders Ahlqvist, Ronelle Alexander, Nadira Aljović, Bojan Anđelković, Boban Arsenijević, John Frederick Bailyn, Josip Baotić, Ranka Bijeljac-Babić, Ranko Bugarski, Vesna Bulatović, Daniel Bunčić, Costas Canakis, Greville Corbett, Oliver Czulo, Natalia Długosz, Ljiljana Dolamic, Nicholas Evans, Rajka Glušica, Radmila Gorup, Senahid Halilović, Camiel Hamans, Mirjana Jocić, Jagoda Jurić-Kappel, Dunja Jutronić, Dejan Karavesović, Jana Kenda, Ivan Klajn, Snježana Kordić, Svetlana Kurteš, Igor Kusin, Zineta Lagumdžija, Igor Lakić, Gordana Lalić-Krstin, Mia Mader Skender, Alisa Mahmutović, Olga Mišeska Tomić, Vladimir Miličić, Spiros Moschonas, Joachim Mugdan, Zoran Nikolovski, Miloš Okuka, Tatjana Paunović, Dušan-Vladislav Pažđerski, Mira Peter, Tanja Petrović, Enisa Pliska, Milena Podolšak, Luka Raičković, Katarina Rasulić, Marija Runić, Svenka Savić, Marko Simonović, Ljiljana Subotić, Danko Šipka, Dušanka Točanac, Neda Todorović, Aleksandar Trklja, Peter Trudgill, Mladen Uhlik, Hanka Vajzović, Vera Vasić, Elvira Veselinović, Đorđe Vidanović, Ana Ždrale, Jelena Živojinović.''“<!-- Do not delete the names of linguists because some deny that there are linguists among the signatories --><ref>{{cite journal|first=Snježana|last=Kordić|author-link=Snježana Kordić|title=Aldo Zanelli: ''Eine Analyse der Metaphern in der kroatischen Linguistikfachzeitschrift'' Jezik ''von 1991 bis 1997'' (book review)|url=https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/935754.Politicka_misao_1_2018_129_133_Kordic-prikaz-Zanelli.pdf|journal=Politička misao|issn=0032-3241|oclc=1032613668|volume=55|issue=1, 2018|pages=131–132|___location=Zagreb|id={{CROSBI|935754}}. {{CEEOL|672926}}}}</ref>

Signatories of the ''Declaration'' include: