ABSTRACT
The construction of ethnolinguistic nation- states across Central Europe, especially after the Great War, was legitimized through (and at the same time enforced) official monolingualism in a single unique, and ideally unshared, national-cum-official language. A similar overlap was also achieved in the case of official scripts (writing systems) across Central Europe. However, it was a gradual process which was largely completed only after the end of communism.
