Serbianisation

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Serbianisation (Serbianization, Serbization or Serbian: Srbizacija) is a term used to describe a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Serbian is made to become Serbian.

It is commonly used in connection with minority ethnic groups living in Serbia and sharing the same Orthodox religion with Serbs. Such ethnic groups are Macedonians, Bulgarians, Vlachs, Romanians, Roma, Greeks, Cincars, etc.

Such cultural change is much less common for other minorities that do not share the same religion with Serbs. This includes ethnic groups such as the Croats, Hungarians, Bosniaks, Albanians, etc.

During the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the government of the Kingdom pursued a linguistic Serbization policy in towards the Macedonian Slavs in Macedonia, then called "Southern Serbia". The dialects spoken in this region were referred to as dialects of Serbo-Croatian.Friedman, V. (1985) "The sociolinguistics of literary Macedonian" in International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Vol. 52, pp. 31-57

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