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The greatest differences between the standards is in vocabulary. However, most words are well understood, and even occasionally used, in the other standards. In most cases, common usage favours one variant and the other(s) are regarded as "imported", archaic, dialectal, or simply more rarely used.
Jun 12, 2024 · Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language (BCMS), term of convenience used to refer to the forms of speech employed by Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). The term Serbo-Croatian was coined in 1824 by German dictionary maker and folklorist Jacob Grimm (see Brothers Grimm).
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Aug 18, 2014 · The official state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, is politically divided into two ethnically defined units, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska; in the former area, some people label their language “Croatian”, while in the latter the term “Serbian” is used.
The differences between the Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian literary standards are minimal. Although Bosnian employs more Turkish, Persian, and Arabic loanwords —commonly called orientalisms—mainly in its spoken variety due to the fact that most Bosnian speakers are Muslims, it is still very similar to both Serbian and Croatian in its ...
Sep 1, 2021 · There is a word that describes the relation between Serbian Croatian Bosnian and Montenegrin languages perfectly: naški. It’s coined from the possessive pronoun naš (ours) and the suffix -ski that we use for making adverbs and that you’ve seen in the names of languages: srpski, hrvatski, engleski, norveški.
Aug 9, 2022 · It is clear that these three languages, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, have a close relationship. The article below from the Dictionary of Languages provides an excellent overview on the languages of the region and their long history.
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Feb 21, 2009 · The once single common language, Serbo-Croatian, has now become Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. But are they really separate languages? In the former Yugoslavia, language and...
