Central South Slavic diasystem

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Central South Slavic diasystem is a South Slavic diasystem.

It is consisted of Croatian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language and Montenegrin language.

Serbo-Croatian language was an artificially created language. Name was politically created and originally had not native speakers that called it that way.

In socialist Yugoslavia, that language was a language, that was in fact, Serbian language (such name of official language was in B&H, Montenegro and in Serbia. Important note: "Croatian or Serbian language" was "lighter" version of Croatian, and a more "politically correct name" according to Yugoslav Communists.

In history of linguistics term "Serbo-Croatian" this was often used for this diasystem, but now is in the process of abandoning, because that term was politically compromised (it reflected the policy of violent merging of Croatian and Serbian language, at the expense of Croatian language).

The term was introduced by Croatian linguist Dalibor Brozović, and later accepted by Radoslav Katičić (among others). On the other side, some other prominent Croatian linguists oppose to this term, like Stjepan Babić and Josip Silić.