Are Serbs and Croats similar (only non yugoslavs and non Balkaners accepted to answer)

[Aldaris]

I mentioned them being seen as ''same shit'' by Europeans similary like you see Croats and Serbs. Average Euros don't really know much about you except that you hate/killed each other (mostly Turk Armenians), both are dark west Asian looking and neighbours with territorial disputes. No need to get mad. Same applies for Kurds.

In here, Armenians are considered to belong in some extremely vague category of 'Asian Soviets', while Turks are seen simply as another Arabs, along with Pakistanis or Algerians. Not really the most accurate conception ever, I know.

[Vožd]

Yes, they're. The only main difference is religious sects. Croats are Catholic, Serbs are Orthodox and Bosniaks are Muslim. Also Serbs use Cyrilic alphabet, while Croats and Bosniaks use Latin alphabet.

Serbs use both Cyrilic and Latin. But there is a plenty of differences between Serbs and Croats, not just religion.

[Jana]

Most of Serbs west of Drina river are native speakers of that dialect. There is little mistake, it's (i)jekavian, not ijekavian. Ijekavian doesn't exist outside of Dubrovnik, Montenegro and Sandžak.
95% of Serbs are native shtokavian speakers, only about 5% are Torlakian speakers. Western Serbia, Vojvodina, western Sandžak and most of Šumadija are neo-shtokavian. Smaller part of Šumadija, Kosovo, Pomoravlje, Župa, eastern Sandžak, Toplica, eastern and part of SE Serbia are old-shtokavian. Only part of SE Serbia is Torlakian, tiny minority even in Serbia, not to mention Serbs as whole.

Those Serbs left absolutely nothing of value so we can't know what did they speak.
Only legacy on Štokavian literature is in Dubrovnik, which is sadly for you, not Serb.

[Ford]

Serbs are closer to the Comanche people.

[Pribislav]

Those Serbs left absolutely nothing of value so we can't know what did they speak.
Only legacy on Štokavian literature is in Dubrovnik, which is sadly for you, not Serb.

You native language is chakavian. You took neo-shtokavian, which is language of my ancestors!

Dubrovnik dialect have more similarities with Montenegrin speech than with any Croatians dialect.

[Jana]

You native language is chakavian. You took neo-shtokavian which is language of my ancestors!
Dubrovnik dialect have more similarities with Montenegrin speach than with any Croatians dialect.

True, I am by origin mostly Čakavian Croat. Sadly I don't speak it.

[Pribislav]

True, I am by origin mostly Čakavian Croat. Sadly I don't speak it.

Croatians killed their native language (chakavian) by own will in 19th century when they adopted shtokavian for standard. If you did not adopted shtokavian your claim on BiH Catholics would have less sense, because they are shtokavian speakers as vast majority of Serbs.

Robocop would say "Fuck Bosnian and Herzegovinian Catholics, due to pretension on them we lost our native beautiful Croatian/chakavian language."

[Jana]

Croatians killed their native language (chakavian) by own will in 19th century when they adopted shtokavian for standard. If you did not adopted shtokavian your claim on BiH Catholics would have less sense, because they are shtokavian speakers as vast majority of Serbs.

Robocop would say "Fuck Bosnian and Herzegovinian Catholics, due to pretensios on them we list our native beautiful Croatian/chakavian language."

Why did you kill your Serbo-Church-Slavonic ?

[Pribislav]

Why did you kill your Serbo-Church-Slavonic ?

Church-Slavonic was language of Serbian Orthodox Church as his name say. Ordinary people never spoke that artificial language.

[Vožd]

Church-Slavonic was language of Serbian Orthodox Church as his name say. Ordinary people never spoke that artificial language.

It was more like pan-Slavic language among Orthodox Slav priests.