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Bosniaks of Serbia (Serbian: Бошњаци у Србији, romanized: Bošnjaci u Srbiji) are a recognized national minority in Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of ethnic Bosniaks in Serbia is 153,801, constituting 2.3% of the total population, which makes them the third largest ethnic group in the country.
Most Bosniaks speak the Bosnian language, a South Slavic language of the Western South Slavic subgroup. Standard Bosnian is considered a variety of Serbo-Croatian , as mutually intelligible with the Croatian and Serbian languages which are all based on the Shtokavian dialect .
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Bosniaks. Bosniaks are a South Slavic ethnic group , native to the region of Bosnia of which the majority are Muslims (90%) . The term Bosniaks was used to describe everyone in that region regardless of their religion until late 1800s. It was established again after decades of suppression in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Bosniaks are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo as well as in Austria, Germany, Turkey and Sweden.
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In Srebrenica massacre. …slaying of more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area—a process known as ethnic cleansing. The massacre, which….
Bosniaks are an ethnic group in the Southeastern part of Europe, mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also present in the neighboring region of Sandzak (Serbia and Montenegro) and countries that were part of former Yugoslavia (North Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia, and Slovenia). Bosniaks got their name after the river Bosna that flows from its ...
Bosnian is a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina by about 2.2 million people. On a formal level, Bosnian began to emerge as a distinct language after the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It became one of official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994, along with Croatian and Serbian.
