I knew a Croatian girl who sure thought she spoke Bosnian
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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