Name of the language cannot be conditioned by the linguistic rights because the constitutional right to the name of the language is separated from the content of language, standard of language, etc.
The authorities of RS are denying Bosnian language although the Dayton Peace Agreement, on which the leaders of RS are calling because it is a guarantor of the survival of the entity, is signed in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian language, and the President of RBiH, Alija Izetbegovic, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic and the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, put their signatures on it on the 14th of December 1995.
Journalist and political analyst Mirnes Kovac said that the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed in the Bosnian language – the one who denies the Bosnian language, denies “the letter of Dayton.”
“Will we abolish the Dayton? Then we’re back to the beginning – and there is not much: no peace, no RS, no future, no progress for peoples in BiH,” said Kovac.
On the other hand, the Constitutional Court of BiH confirmed that the constitutional right of constituent Bosniak people, as well as all other constituent peoples and others who are not declaring themselves like that, is a language spoken by the name they want to call it, which is in accordance with the Constitution of BiH and any practice contrary to the law would lead to violation of the Constitution of BiH, as well as the Constitution of Republika Srpska (RS).
Also, the Constitutional Court of BiH, among other things, stated that the Constitution of BiH nowhere provides that the names of the languages spoken by the constituent peoples must be attributed to the name of the constituent peoples. The Constitution of BiH gives the right to the constituent peoples and others to call the language they speak by the name they want. This provision does not give the right to the public authorities in the RS to determine the name of the language spoken by Bosniaks in specific cases, opposite of their constitutional right to call the language they speak by the name they want.
Disputed provision does not prevent Bosniaks or anyone else to call the language they speak by the name they want. Therefore, this concept of the disputed provisions is following the view that the Constitution of BiH gives the right to all constituent peoples, including Bosniaks, and others who do not identify themselves like that, to call the language they speak by the name they want.
(Source: Radiosarajevo.ba)
