Currently confused at why a question as decent as this has a downvote lol
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i was asked by a doctor if i would like to talk in serb language with a therapist and then he said oh waits i think its in bosniak and i said thats all the same but i prefer to speak in german (i speak german better im more familiar since i grew up in austria) to me its the same but i wonder what bosniaks will say
I think privately most would say it's the same language but I don't think many would officially say that they aren't three separate languages. For the same reason why an Atheist Bosniak would probably call himself a 'Muslim', a Bosniak will call his language Bosnian. It's mainly for strengthening their national identity.
But I don't live in BiH so I don't know what the atmosphere is like over there. This is just the view from people I've spoken to in BiH, Montenegro, and Australia.
Why are Schman and Bomber thumbing down most of the posts in this thread?
Wtf is a 'Yugoslav Muslim Atheist'? They don't exist. Muslim (with the capital M) was (and is) a different ethnic category from 'Yugoslav' in the SFRJ and ex-Yu countries. Considering you live in BiH I would have expected you to know the basic history of Bosniaks.
And Bosniaks aren't 'Illyrian' so what are you supposed to be? Albanian? :confused:
Islam is not tied to Bosniak identity, although most Bosniaks are muslim.
Ivana Mostarac or Zeljko Milicevic are prominent Catholic Bosniaks of today, and they are fully and truly accepted as such.
http://www.bosnjaci.net/prilog.php?pid=51029
http://diwan-magazine.com/intervju-s...-smo-bosnjaci/
We are not Serbs to tie our ethnicity to religion. Remember that.
Its not the same. Historicaly it has been mentioned as different and staid different. The difference is obvious when languages are written in their original alphabets.
Or people with less nuance who learn the Yugoslav average language.
How do you view Bosniaks that ethnically mix?