The posting on languages in Europe, with special reference to Spain, raises some interesting parallels with the Balkans and its language-religious antagonisms. Spain was reconquered by the Christians, the Balkans were not. In Spain, Islam and Arabic were slowly pushed out. In the Balkans, Islam and non-European languages languages (Turkish and the two varieties of Albanian) survived, with the resultant chaos. Serbia under Milosevich was attempting a reconquest like that of Spain five centuries earlier. The history of this is horribly complicated. The Orthodox Chrcuh collaborated with the Turks in trying to suppress Albanian.
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http://wais.stanford.edu/Spain/spain...rabic4901.html
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