This article considers the relationship between community and language as a possible constitutive element in the medieval and early modern age mind set. The example of the Slovenes shows how identities took shape on different levels and due to different factors. Language was always understood as a possible foundation of community, but this idea never prevailed absolutely - just as it does not today. There is no universal model for the forming of community because each history is different - just as visions and perceptions of what a particular community wishes to achieve are different. And these also represent constitutive elements.
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