"السلام عليكم" translations in your languages...

format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint

As I said, it is a delicate issue.
I know a couple of Bosnian immigrants of all 3 ethnicities and they can't agree on the existence and properties of the Bosnian language.

"The Bosnian Language" is a distinct issue from "Bosniak" Serbian, Croatian, and Bosniak are all simmilar and mutually intelligible, so there is some debate as to if Bosniak is really a distinct "language" rather than a dialect, kind of likt the debate over if Serbian is really distinct from Croatian but I don't know of any doubt that this, at the very least, dialect/language actually exists. It is acknowledged in international treties and there are books written about it.

format_quote Originally Posted by wth1257

"The Bosnian Language" is a distinct issue from "Bosniak" Serbian, Croatian, and Bosniak are all simmilar and mutually intelligible, so there is some debate as to if Bosniak is really a distinct "language" rather than a dialect, kind of likt the debate over if Serbian is really distinct from Croatian but I don't know of any doubt that this, at the very least, dialect/language actually exists. It is acknowledged in international treties and there are books written about it.

Ok, I guess I stand corrected. I'll try to look into the issue.

format_quote Originally Posted by sister harb

My ex-husband lived and studied before (at 1970s´) in Sarajevo. He told that serbs and bosniaks spoken almost same language but they had some different dialects together.

When everyone got along slightly better, there was only one official language, serbocroatian.