[[File:Collecting signatures for the Declaration on the Common Language.jpg|thumb|Collecting signatures for the ''Declaration'']]
The ''Declaration on the commonCommon languageLanguage'', with more than two hundred signatures of prominent intellectuals<ref>{{cite web|last=Puhovski|first=Žarko|author-link=Žarko Puhovski|title=Politika u RH je najgluplje i najhisteričnije reagirala|trans-title=Politics in the Republic of Croatia Reacted the Most Stupidly and Hysterically|language=sh|work=TV show Novi dan (host Tihomir Ladišić)|url=http://hr.n1info.com/a189788/Vijesti/Politika-u-RH-je-najgluplje-i-najhistericnije-reagirala.html|date=7 April 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033945/http://hr.n1info.com/a189788/Vijesti/Politika-u-RH-je-najgluplje-i-najhistericnije-reagirala.html|url-status=live|___location=Zagreb|publisher=[[N1 (TV channel)|N1]]|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bakotin|first=Jerko|date=15 May 2017|title=Petković ili o kenjaži|trans-title=Petković or About Bullshit|language=sh|url=http://www.portalnovosti.com/petkovic-ili-o-kenjazi|publisher=[[Novosti (Croatia)|Novosti]]|archive-date=19 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519001848/http://www.portalnovosti.com/petkovic-ili-o-kenjazi|url-status=live|___location=Zagreb|issn=1845-8955|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> from Croatia,<ref>{{cite web|last=Savičević Ivančević|first=Olja|title=Predsjednik društva pisaca tuži novinara: Petkovića pozivaju na ostavku. "To je bijedno i kukavički!"|trans-title=The President of the Writers' Club Sues a Journalist: Calling for the Resignation of Petković. "It's Crazy and Cowardly!"|language=sh|url=http://www.lupiga.com/vijesti/predsjednik-drustva-pisaca-tuzi-novinara-petkovica-pozivaju-na-ostavku-to-je-bijedno-i-kukavicki|publisher=Lupiga|archive-date=19 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119211217/http://lupiga.com/vijesti/predsjednik-drustva-pisaca-tuzi-novinara-petkovica-pozivaju-na-ostavku-to-je-bijedno-i-kukavicki|url-status=live|___location=Zagreb|issn=1849-3831|date=16 November 2017|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia was simultaneously presented to the public on 30 March 2017 in Zagreb, Podgorica, Belgrade and Sarajevo, where a press conference was held and two [[panel discussion]]s with titles "What is a common language?" and "Language and the Future". Then the ''Declaration'' was opened for signing to other people.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[P.E.N.]]|date=27 March 2017|title=Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku|trans-title=Declaration on the Common Language|language=sh|url=http://penbih.ba/2017/03/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku/|publisher=P.E.N. BiH|___location=Sarajevo|archive-date=31 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331085450/http://penbih.ba/2017/03/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku/|url-status=live|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> Over the next few days, more than 8,000 people signed it.<ref>{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Sander|date=23 May 2017|title=Nationalistisch geprägte Sprache?|trans-title=Language Burdened With Nationalism?|language=de|url=http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/935988.Deutschlandradio_SK_23-5-2017.mp3|publisher=[[Deutschlandradio]]|___location=Berlin|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> Two months later, in the framework of the 10th [[Subversive Festival]] in Zagreb, a [[Round table (discussion)|round table]] on the ''Declaration'', titled "Language and Nationalism", was held.<ref>{{cite web|date=19 May 2017|title=Okrugli stol: Jezik i nacionalizam|trans-title=Round Table: Language and Nationalism|language=sh|url=http://subversivefestival.com/sf17/okrugli-stol-jezik-i-nacionalizam/|publisher=[[Subversive Festival|10. Subversive Festival]]|___location=Zagreb|archive-date=13 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513172437/http://subversivefestival.com/sf17/okrugli-stol-jezik-i-nacionalizam/|url-status=live|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|ZlyXyJtu_KQ|Round Table: Language and Nationalism (90 min)}} {{in lang|sh}}</ref> Then a debate<ref>{{YouTube|2VsRa2kfAwk|Clip From the Debate (Teofil Pančić), 2 min}} {{in lang|sh}}</ref> "About the Declaration on the Common Language and Other Demons" was held at the [[Krokodil Literary Festival|Crocodile Literature Festival]] in Belgrade.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Tanjug]]|date=19 June 2017|title=Ljudi, nemojmo da se zafrkavamo, svi govorimo istim jezikom|trans-title=People, Let Us not Full Ourselves, We All Speak the Same Language|language=sh|url=http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?yyyy=2017&mm=06&dd=19&nav_category=1864&nav_id=1273654|publisher=[[B92]]|___location=Belgrade|archive-date=24 June 2017|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6rSHdFiuT?url=http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?yyyy=2017&mm=06&dd=19&nav_category=1864&nav_id=1273654|url-status=live|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Ćirić|first=Sonja|date=22 June 2017|title=Ptičica koja ide okolo i smeta|journal=Vreme: Nedeljnik|trans-title=Bird That Goes Around and Disturbs|language=sh|url=http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1509828|publisher=[[Vreme]]|archive-date=23 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823035701/http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1509828|url-status=live|___location=Belgrade|issn=0353-8028|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> After that, in [[Novi Sad]], a panel discussion "Whose is Our Language?" at the [[Exit (festival)|Exit festival]]<ref>{{YouTube|pJxjTonO67I|Clip from the Panel "Whose is Our Language?", 7 min}} {{in lang|sh}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Svi govorimo naš jezik|trans-title=We All Speak Our Language|language=sh|url=http://www.danas.rs/drustvo.55.html?news_id=350623&title=%E2%80%9CSvi+govorimo+NA%C5%A0+jezik%E2%80%9D|work=[[Danas (newspaper)|Danas]]|archive-date=16 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716100101/http://www.danas.rs/drustvo.55.html?news_id=350623&title=%E2%80%9CSvi+govorimo+NA%C5%A0+jezik%E2%80%9D|url-status=live|___location=Belgrade|issn=1450-538X|date=9 July 2017|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=9 July 2017|title=Tribina: Deklaracijom o zajedničkom jeziku protiv nacionalizma|trans-title=Panel: The Declaration on the Common Language Against Nationalism|language=sh|url=http://www.autonomija.info/tribina-deklaracijom-o-zajednickom-jeziku-protiv-nacionalizma.html|publisher=Autonomija|archive-date=14 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714082609/http://www.autonomija.info/tribina-deklaracijom-o-zajednickom-jeziku-protiv-nacionalizma.html|url-status=live|___location=Novi Sad|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> and a forum "What are the Achievements of the Declaration on the Common Language?" at the International Literary Conference Book Talk were organised.<ref>{{YouTube|975YLk0XONE|Panel on the Declaration at the Conference Book Talk, 56 min}} {{in lang|sh}}</ref> In Montenegro, there was a round table on the ''Declaration'' in the framework of the 7th [[Petar II Petrović-Njegoš|Njegoš's]] Days.<ref>{{YouTube|yEDBscF80IM|Announcement of the Round Table on the Declaration on TV ''Vijesti'', 14 min}} {{in lang|sh}}</ref> At the end of 2017, a discussion "What to do With the Language: Who speaks (or does not speak) the common language?" was organised at the 6th [[Open University of Sarajevo|Open University in Sarajevo]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Hana|last=Sokolović|title=Šta da se radi s jezikom?|trans-title=What To Do With the Language?|language=sh|work=TV news Dnevnik|url=http://ba.n1info.com/a226040/Video/Info/Sta-da-se-radi.-s-jezikom.html|publisher=[[N1 (TV channel)|N1]]|date=10 November 2017|access-date=18 June 2019}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 1:48 min</ref>
