The Dilemmas of the Legal Regulation of Minority Languages and Scripts Use / Dileme pravnog regulisanja upotrebe jezika i pisma nacionalnih manjina

Abstract

In this article the author analyses the open issues of the legal regulation of minority languages and scripts use on the example of the Republic of Serbia. Those issues are the exercising of linguistic identity through different forms of the right to use minority languages and scripts, especially in the case of personal names, the existence and name of the language, issues of scale and character of the numerical criteria for the exercise of the official and public use of minority languages and scripts, as well as the use of minority languages and scripts in case of topographical indications, especially traditional local names.