Bosnian (Bosanski (Bosanski, Cyrilic: босански) is a name commonly used for Serbo-Croatian as spoken by Bosnian as a form of the Shtokavian dialekt, it is one of three Serbo-Croatian standards used officially in Bosnia. The same subdialect of Shtokavian is also the basis of standard Croatian and Serbian, so all are mutually intelligible. Up until the dissolution of former SFRJ, they were treated as a unitary Serbo-Croatian languange and that term is still used to refer to the common base (vocabulary, grammar and syntax) of what are today officially four national standards. The Bosnian standard uses the Latin alphabet. The name of the language is a subject of some controversary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and is sometimes alternatively referred to as Bosniak (also spelled "Bosniac"; bošnjački), reflecting a position that it is the standard language of Bosniaks, not all Bosnian (i.e.Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks).
Sunday, December 19, 2010
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