How does Bosnian sound to you?

[Hurrem sultana]

How does Bosnian sound to you? :D



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A7OwKZwShmU


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=P_GlW1uIrTw

[Rron]

English:D

[Mordid]

Sound like Slav trying to speak Turkish.

[morski]

Serbian.

[Hurrem sultana]

English:D

:D

no but seriously,some peopled(swedes,arabs) have told me that bosnian/serbian/croatian sound like a mix of greek and slavic:D

[leisitox]

Sound like serbian-bulgarian slavic with italian,greek influences like latin

[Caeruleus]

like moldovan :laugh2:

by the way I always had this strange idea that of all modern slavic languages serbo-croatian is the closest to the old vernacular slavic ... any truth to this little theory of mine :confused:

[Rron]

:D

no but seriously,some peopled(swedes,arabs) have told me that bosnian/serbian/croatian sound like a mix of greek and slavic:D
Its slavic language, how can it sounds different except slavic.

[jerney]

Sound like serbian-bulgarian slavic with italian,greek influences like latin

basically

[BiałaZemsta]

I like it. I can tell it is slavic, but it deffinately has influences from other languages. Maybe italian or greek? I am not exactly sure.

[BiałaZemsta]

like moldovan :laugh2:

by the way I always had this strange idea that of all modern slavic languages serbo-croatian is the closest to the old vernacular slavic ... any truth to this little theory of mine :confused:

I could be wrong, but I heard somewhere that Polish and Belorussian languages are closest to the old vernacular slavic. I have no source for that though.

[Jerry]

I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, Serbian, Polish or Bulgarian for example... All sound the same :(

Edit:
But now that I compare with Polish, I do hear the difference. But I'm afraid in real life I couldn't say what is what. Maybe Bosnian has some Greek influence, because it has something different - and i can't hear as much of the szzz schhh dzzzz -kind of sounds like in Polish (or Russian)

[leisitox]

First time I hear it in these videos. I thought general slavic like serbian, then I compared it with a video of bulgarian and greek language. I noticed that the rhythm was latin influenced and sounded like italian so much.
Thats the analysis I do when comes to:
How does (insert language here) sound to you?

[Caeruleus]

I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, Serbian, Polish or Bulgarian for example... All sound the same :(

Edit:
But now that I compare with Polish, I do hear the difference. But I'm afraid in real life I couldn't say what is what. Maybe Bosnian has some Greek influence, because it has something different - and i can't hear as much of the szzz schhh dzzzz -kind of sounds like in Polish (or Russian)

you cant tell the difference between "bosnian" and serbian because there isnt one :) bulgarian and polish are quite different though, especially polish

[Hurrem sultana]

bulgarian i can kinda understand a lot,but polish is very different :)

there are many latin words used ,and i guess it is latin influenced

[Queen B]

For a Greek, it doesn't sound like Greek at all.

It sound Slavic. I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, or Serbian , or Fyromian, but it sound softer than Russian.

Slavic languages are not my cup of tea, but they are not ''irritating'' to the ear, like other languages...

[Hurrem sultana]

Slavic languages are not my cup of tea, but they are not ''irritating'' to the ear, like other languages...


i actually don't like Russian at all,how it sounds

[Queen B]

i actually don't like Russian at all,how it sounds

Russian has lots of consonants, and lots or ''r'' sounds , which I dislike. Same goes for German, which sounds too harsh in my ears.

The Balkan Slavic languages are softer to the ear, but nothing special for me.

I don't really know the difference between them. Can you tell some points of how Bosnian is different from other Balkan languages?

I mean, any special letter-sound? different grammar ?

[Damião de Góis]

I hardly get any word. As far as sound is concerned, it sounds like a weird mixture of russian and italian.

[Comte Arnau]

Eastern Portuguese. :D

[Padre Organtino]

Softer version of Ukranian with latinisms. Serbo/Croat/Bosnian is one of my favourite languages though I have very poor mastery of it.

[Hurrem sultana]

I hardly get any word. As far as sound is concerned, it sounds like a weird mixture of russian and italian.

well what a surprise,and i thought bosnian and portugese were very similar:cool::D

[Damião de Góis]

well what a surprise,and i thought bosnian and portugese were very similar:cool::D

The sound? Maybe they are to foreigners.

[Guapo]

Slavic and some Romance

[Sikeliot]

It sounds like a Slavic language with Italian phonetics.

[Kacca]

sounds turkish mixed with bulgarian and serbian

[Hurrem sultana]

sounds turkish mixed with bulgarian and serbian

really`?:rolleyes2:

[Kacca]

yes

[Adrian]

Bosnian sounds good to me. Bosnian, croatian and serbian language are very similar. Polish, russian, macedonian and bullgarian sounds diffrent to me.

Bosnian, sta ima ba?

Whay is this ba everywhere in your language?

[Amarantine]

strange language:P

[Hurrem sultana]

Bosnian sounds good to me. Bosnian, croatian and serbian language are very similar. Polish, russian, macedonian and bullgarian sounds diffrent to me.

Bosnian, sta ima ba?

Whay is this ba everywhere in your language?

hard to explain ..it is like "bre" in serbian

[morski]

hard to explain ..it is like "bre" in serbian

Be, bre, ve, va, ua - all used in Bulgarian:D. I read somewhere that it is a loan from Greek.

[Hurrem sultana]

Be, bre, ve, va, ua - all used in Bulgarian:D. I read somewhere that it is a loan from Greek.

it is actaully turkish

and serbs,albanians use it too

bosnians dont

[memobekes]

Bosnian sounds Slavic of the ijekevian variant.

[The Journeyman]

It sounds like Serbian to me. I must say though, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian are the most attractive sounding Slavic languages to my ears. They have a very nice musical sound, Very clear (sounds like compound) metres. It sounds maybe like there could be some greek or Latin sounding influences.

[Dilberth]

It sounds like rude,lower-class Croatian,which it is basically

[bluesky]

It sounds like a turk trying to speak russian

[Turkophagos]

it is actaully turkish

and serbs,albanians use it too

bosnians dont



http://aeryssports.com/spreadin-the-news/files/2011/07/nope.jpg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_(exclamation)

[Hurrem sultana]

any proof?

[Turkophagos]

any proof?

There's a link there..

[Hurrem sultana]

it is a known fact that it comes from turkey,just like you try to claim baklava,sarma and what else...still everyone outside knows its turkish :D

[Ushtari]

Bre je Türkiyje

[Hess]

I like all European languages, and Bosnian is no exception :thumb001:

[Turkophagos]

it is a known fact that it comes from turkey,just like you try to claim baklava,sarma and what else...still everyone outside knows its turkish :D

http://www.crossed-flag-pins.com/Friendship-Pins/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/Flag-Pins-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina-Turkey.jpg

[morski]

http://aeryssports.com/spreadin-the-news/files/2011/07/nope.jpg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_(exclamation)

Blah, and I'm trying to find a source all day:eusa_doh:
In BG folk songs this more\mori is also very common as an address to someone.

[Hurrem sultana]

Bre je Türkiyje

suti bre budalo :D:D:p

[Jerry]

I have to take back my statement about Polish, I know hear clearly that there is a clear difference to it and Bosnian. The difference to Russian I spot because hearing Russian is a lot more common to me.

But still I can't hear a lot of difference to Bulgarian.

[morski]

I have to take back my statement about Polish, I know hear clearly that there is a clear difference to it and Bosnian. The difference to Russian I spot because hearing Russian is a lot more common to me.

But still I can't hear a lot of difference to Bulgarian.

Serbo-Croation dialects and Macedono-Bulgarian are almost identical lexically, difference is the former are synthetic and the latter- analytical grammatically. They are close phonetically because literary Bulgarian used its Western varieties as the norm for pronunciation.

[Mordid]

I have to take back my statement about Polish, I know hear clearly that there is a clear difference to it and Bosnian. The difference to Russian I spot because hearing Russian is a lot more common to me.

But still I can't hear a lot of difference to Bulgarian.

We don't sound like Bosnian at all. Listen to it and you'll tell me what is difference between Bosnian and Polish language:
B6XHUb2MYpo

[Hurrem sultana]

he just said polish does not sound bosnian

judging by the video,i am glad :D :P

[Mordid]

My mistake.

[Äike]

Sounds like Slavic with a Romance accent.

[Hurrem sultana]

Serbo-Croation dialects and Macedono-Bulgarian are almost identical lexically, difference is the former are synthetic and the latter- analytical grammatically. They are close phonetically because literary Bulgarian used its Western varieties as the norm for pronunciation.

well how much do you understand in bosnian(when spoken)?

[Ushtari]

My mistake.
Jebemti majku

[morski]

well how much do you understand in bosnian(when spoken)?

Maybe it was an overstatement on my part to claim those dialects are "almost identical", but when one takes a look at the bigger picture(the South-Slavic dialect continuum) there certainly is a lot of overlap.

Lets say that I can always understand the main topic of any conversation and follow a talk on a familiar topic + pick up nuances of meaning\opinion.

Actually before SkanderbegIsGod got banned we had some smalltalks in CB in Serbo-Croatian:).

[billErobreren]

videos didn't show anything & I lost my patience but I have heard it both sung & spoken before so I can still give my opinion to me it sounds Slavic mostly like Serbian with but the phonetic of Italian many of their words do sound latin. all in all I think it's an ok language

[Hurrem sultana]

Maybe it was an overstatement on my part to claim those dialects are "almost identical", but when one takes a look at the bigger picture(the South-Slavic dialect continuum) there certainly is a lot of overlap.

Lets say that I can always understand the main topic of any conversation and follow a talk on a familiar topic + pick up nuances of meaning\opinion.

Actually before SkanderbegIsGod got banned we had some smalltalks in CB in Serbo-Croatian:).

well i can understand something when i read it but i can not understand much when written,a friend from school who is bulgarian said the same about bosnian

[morski]

Ahem... I'm sorry, but you lost me there... :confused:

[Hurrem sultana]

sorry i mean i can understand when reading but not when listening :D

[morski]

Well, I've watched a lot of Serbian films. I suppose that has helped me acquire a better understanding of the language.

[askra]

slavic with some few words of latin origin

[Ants]

They speak too fast, they were done speaking before I could start my listening.

[AFC_Lad]

Sounds like a mix of Greek Italian and some slavic language..

[Hurrem sultana]

a bulgarian song :D i don't understand a word..ok maybe 1-2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3i8n8woEo&feature=related

[Guapo]

http://gdb.rferl.org/1DB57ADE-1448-47A2-9414-96812943AA60_mw800_mh600.jpg

:thumb down

[Hurrem sultana]

guapo stop spamming,open up a thread and write about whatever nationalistic crap you desire to write about

[Absinthe]

Strange: even though I know it is slavic, it soulds like it has some pretty heavy latin influences (Italian, Romanian).... I am probably wrong though. I would have a hard time identifying this as an entirely slavic language if I heard it on the street, I'd probably think it's Romanian :p

How similar it is to other Balkan Slavic languages?

[morski]

a bulgarian song :D i don't understand a word..ok maybe 1-2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3i8n8woEo&feature=related

Pff, crappy chalga :)

[Guapo]

Strange: even though I know it is slavic, it soulds like it has some pretty heavy latin influences (Italian, Romanian).... I am probably wrong though. I would have a hard time identifying this as an entirely slavic language if I heard it on the street, I'd probably think it's Romanian :p

How similar it is to other Balkan Slavic languages?

"bosnian" or "bosnjacki" is bascially Serbian and Croatian, It was made up in the early 90's as an official language :rolleyes:

[Absinthe]

Okay, but Serbian and Croatian, from the little I have heard, do *not* sound as Romance to me as Bosnian does. So where does the difference in pronunciation come from?

[Mordid]

guapo stop spamming,open up a thread and write about whatever nationalistic crap you desire to write about
Inshallah

[Guapo]

Okay, but Serbian and Croatian, from the little I have heard, do *not* sound as Romance to me as Bosnian does. So where does the difference in pronunciation come from?

Italian? Italians say siedi, bosnians sijedi and Serbians sedi for "sit down"

[Mordid]

Italian? Italians say siedi, bosnians sijedi and Serbians sedi for "sit down"

Sounds gay.

[Absinthe]

Italian? Italians say siedi, bosnians sijedi and Serbians sedi for "sit down"
Uhm, let me rephrase the question :p

I mean, if Bosnian is essentially the same as Croatian and Serbian, as you say, then how/under what conditions did it acquire a more latin sounding pronunciation than its sister languages? :)

[Guapo]

Uhm, let me rephrase the question :p

I mean, if Bosnian is essentially the same as Croatian and Serbian, as you say, then how/under what conditions did it acquire a more latin sounding pronunciation than its sister languages? :)

I dont see how it is more latin sounding to you, Greek.

[Guapo]

Sounds gay.

Says teh naughty Santa

[Guapo]

Montenegrin sounds more latin sounding than all of them, check out the lady with the whip.

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[Caeruleus]

"bosnian" or "bosnjacki" is bascially Serbian and Croatian, It was made up in the early 90's as an official language :rolleyes:

just like i said in one of my previous posts ... 'bosnian" sounds like "moldovan" = made up :)

[Amarantine]

just like i said in one of my previous posts ... 'bosnian" sounds like "moldovan" = made up :)

:eek: after latin elements (sorry Absinth:D), this one is even better comment.

Sounds-like this:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/upload/yuiupload/989780841.jpg

[Absinthe]

I dont see how it is more latin sounding to you, Greek.
:rolleyes: Okay, it seems that you don't get it/

From my experience, Serbian and Croatian have a very characteristic Slavic sound. When I hear a Serb talking, I know it is a slavic language.

Listening to Bosnian today, it sounds less characteristically Slavic and with a rather distinctively "latin" twist.

Several other posters have commented the same thing, in this thread, and they aren't Greek.

Do you get it now? ;)

And what does my being Greek have to do with any of this discussion?

[Amarantine]

:rolleyes: Okay, it seems that you don't get it/

From my experience, Serbian and Croatian have a very characteristic Slavic sound. When I hear a Serb talking, I know it is a slavic language.

Listening to Bosnian today, it sounds less characteristically Slavic and with a rather distinctively "latin" twist.

Several other posters have commented the same thing, in this thread, and they aren't Greek.

Do you get it now? ;)

And what does my being Greek have to do with any of this discussion?

I will answer instead of Guapo-he thinks that your Greek has Latin sound:D

[Absinthe]

I will answer instead of Guapo-he thinks that your Greek has Latin sound:D
That's ridiculous, Greek doesn't have any significant latin influence, even Germanic languages are more latin influenced than Greek.

But to an untrained ear it might appear to be so since Greek doesn't really sound like anything else but people tend to cluster it with Latin because of the geographical proximity.

[Guapo]

:rolleyes: Okay, it seems that you don't get it/

From my experience, Serbian and Croatian have a very characteristic Slavic sound. When I hear a Serb talking, I know it is a slavic language.

Listening to Bosnian today, it sounds less characteristically Slavic and with a rather distinctively "latin" twist.

Several other posters have commented the same thing, in this thread, and they aren't Greek.

Do you get it now? ;)

And what does my being Greek have to do with any of this discussion?

This is Serbian, I dont see how different it is from Bosnian

Xp83-KhGcmc

[Ushtari]

Serbs = wannabe Bosnians

[Sagitta Hungarica]

I hear no striking differences from Serbian and Croatian. Basically almost the same with them. From an esthetic point of view however to me it sounds rigid, cold, robotic even. Compared to Eastern Slavic languages, which have a melody, can express a larger range of emotions, this language almost sounds emotionless to my ears.

[HungAryan]

It sounds like Russian with a twist.

[Tony]

It sounds like an exotic form of South Slavic, with a lot of latin tones and accents threw in, from Romania I'd say, sometimes it feels like you are hearing Romanian with slavic accents or sort of...

And I can't detect any form of Greek in it, many words in Greek end in -os -es -is -as etc that could bring a phonetic similarity with Spanish, not at all with Bosnian.

[Guapo]

It sounds like an exotic form of South Slavic, with a lot of latin tones and accents threw in, from Romania I'd say, sometimes it feels like you are hearing Romanian with slavic accents or sort of...

And I can't detect any form of Greek in it, many words in Greek end in -os -es -is -as etc that could bring a phonetic similarity with Spanish, not at all with Bosnian.

Not from Romanian language, from the Romanized natives that used to be found all over ex-Yugoslavia(Istria, east Serbia/Tribalia,Damlazia etc.) The Serb are near Sarajevo is still called Romanija after teh Romans.

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[Hurrem sultana]

the croats of bosnia are still called sometimes "latini"(but only as degrading,just like you call the serbs "vlasi"-wlachs)


any historical reason for this?

[Guapo]

the croats of bosnia are still called sometimes "latini"(but only as degrading,just like you call the serbs "vlasi"-wlachs)


any historical reason for this?

"Vlach" is what the Slavs called the Romans just like teh Polaks call Italy, don't they teach you history in the mosques?

[Hurrem sultana]

"Vlach" is what the Slavs called the Romans just like teh Polaks call Italy, don't they teach you history in the mosques?

No they dont,they only teach out futurism

Okay,but still no explanation why are the serbs in Bosnia called vlachs,and croats latini? today it is a degrading word,but back in old times it was a common word that the serbs,croats themselves used

[Dilberth]

the croats of bosnia are still called sometimes "latini"(but only as degrading,just like you call the serbs "vlasi"-wlachs)


any historical reason for this?

Bosnian Croats and Muslims have same phenotype and they are lighter than orthodox vlachs,because they are natives and vlachs came with Ottomanic invasions as Turkish auxilliary troops(Martolozi,Akindzije).Good example would be Momčilo the Brow Krajišnik.

[Tony]

Not from Romanian language, from the Romanized natives that used to be found all over ex-Yugoslavia(Istria, east Serbia/Tribalia,Damlazia etc.) The Serb are near Sarajevo is still called Romanija after teh Romans.

I read somewhere that hundreds of years ago groups of Romanians migrated in western Balkania (i.e. Yugoslavia) as far as Istria and Slovenia and took with them their Latin tongue, today there are left only tiny minorities of them in very small pockets here and there slowly dying off.
However I cannot remember how they were called.

Ah I found it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlachs

It isn't native Romanized people but actually immigrants from Romania who took with them their mothertongue, probably Bosnian is the Slavic language that borrowed more from them.

the croats of bosnia are still called sometimes "latini"(but only as degrading,just like you call the serbs "vlasi"-wlachs)


any historical reason for this?
Maybe it's due to religious discrimination.
Muslims Bosnians didn't accept the presence of Catholic Croatians and stressed the religious difference.
Like a Croatian would call Muslims Bosnians Turks or Othmans instead of Muslim Bosnians.

[morski]

the croats of bosnia are still called sometimes "latini"(but only as degrading,just like you call the serbs "vlasi"-wlachs)


any historical reason for this?

All Catholics were called latini or franki by the Orthodox Slavs in medieval times.

[Hurrem sultana]

Maybe it's due to religious discrimination.
Muslims Bosnians didn't accept the presence of Catholic Croatians and stressed the religious difference.
Like a Croatian would call Muslims Bosnians Turks or Othmans instead of Muslim Bosnians.

Probably

[Guapo]

Good example would be Momčilo the Brow Krajišnik.

Right,and all Croatian wimminz have moustaches :rolleyes:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1285/hrvatica8so.jpg

[MST3K]

It just sounds pleasing to the ear

[Guapo]

Omfg, Serbian, Croatian and this frankenstien called "Bosnian" is all one language based on the eastern Herzegovinian(i.e. stokavsko-ijekavski) dialect for fuck sakes whether people like it or not.

[Dombra]

Random slavovich :D

[Wild North]

I can´t really hear any differences between Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian. And this is not really strange, because to them I´m an outsider.

All of these were used to be called Serbo-Croatian. However this is the past, but now we have Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and even Montenegrin languages.. And what more? Herzegovinian? :p

[gregorius]

sounds like italian or dutch

[Gospodine]

Compared to Eastern Slavic languages, which have a melody, can express a larger range of emotions, this language almost sounds emotionless to my ears.

It's the other way around.

[IllyricumSacrum]

Its sounds like my farts

[Gospodine]

Its sounds like my farts

So who's sock puppet are you? Dralos, Ushtari, Duskfall?

[Guapo]

Dralos, Ushtari, Duskfall

all 3 are faggots living in foreign countries playing hardcore albo nationalists.

[Meow]

Sounds like Serbian, I like all South Slav languages :)

[Adrian]

I think Bosnian language has more melody than other Slavic languages.

From my experience, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian languages are very similar to each other. While Slovenian, Bulgarian and language spoken in Macedonia differ a lot from the first three mentioned languages.

[Midori]

Bosnians have a cool accent.

[Gospodine]

Imo this is the definitive male Bosniak accent:

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[rashka]

I think I know what Absinthe is talking about regarding the latin sound. She is probably hearing the Montenegrin accent from Herzeg Novi close to the border of Bosnia and which does sound a little different.

[Absinthe]

I think I know what Absinthe is talking about regarding the latin sound. She is probably hearing the Montenegrin accent from Herzeg Novi close to the border of Bosnia and which does sound a little different.
I think so too :)

[Guapo]

I dont think Bosnian, Montenegrin or even "Macedonian"/Bulgarian has a Latin sound, I think the language in Serbia proper does, it's more melodic. Also, people there were influenced more by Romance speaking people, Romanians.

[Aunt Hilda]

sounds like russian+polish+greek ;P

[Twistedmind]

I dont think Bosnian, Montenegrin or even "Macedonian"/Bulgarian has a Latin sound, I think the language in Serbia proper does, it's more melodic. Also, people there were influenced more by Romance speaking people, Romanians.
Guapo Bosnian and Serbian is same thing
:picard1:
Unless inability to differentiate č and ć does not mean new language.

[Drawing-slim]

Just another depressing boring slavic language.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Omfg, Serbian, Croatian and this frankenstien called "Bosnian" is all one language based on the eastern Herzegovinian(i.e. stokavsko-ijekavski) dialect for fuck sakes whether people like it or not.

This. Just as Macedonian and Bulgarian are in essence the same language differed only in slight dialectical differences.

[Roy]

By the way, how exactly standard Bosnian differ from Serbian/Croatian? Are there any significant differences or is it just self-made conception (similar situation to Romanian/Moldovan).

As for the sound of Bosnian - sounds like Croatian, a bit more flattened melodically.

[Methmatician]

By the way, how exactly standard Bosnian differ from Serbian/Croatian? Are there any significant differences or is it just self-made conception (similar situation to Romanian/Moldovan).

No significant difference. Some Bosniaks like to use words like Merhaba, Alahimanet, Sabah hajrula, Akšam hajrula, Selam, poselami (Turkish borrowings etc). Also, apparently, the use of 'h' is considered a difference in the Bosnian language eg. Promaja/Promaha, Lako/Lahko, Kafa/Kahva, etc.

[Twistedmind]

No significant difference. Some Bosniaks like to use words like Merhaba, Alahimanet, Sabah hajrula, Akšam hajrula, Selam, poselami (Turkish borrowings etc).
It is more religious thing.



Also, apparently, the use of 'h' is considered a difference in the Bosnian language eg. Promaja/Promaha, Lako/Lahko, Kafa/Kahva, etc.

And 90% of people do not use.

[Jackson]

As if someone mixed Spanish and Polish.

[Vojnik]

Zvuci kao SRPSKO-HRVATSKI. (Serbo-Croatian)

[The Ripper]

It sounds like Serbian and Croatian.

[Hurrem sultana]

It sounds like Serbian and Croatian.

does serbian sound like croatian and bosnian:eek::D

[The Ripper]

does serbian sound like croatian and bosnian:eek::D

It doesn't work like that.

[Hurrem sultana]

It doesn't work like that.

yes it does:picard1:

[Twistedmind]

yes it does:picard1:
No. :p

[Antimage]

to me it sounds slavic and nothing else. sounds the same as serbian and croatian

[Nero]

Turkish

[StormBringer]

Funny.
The substitution of č with ć downright annoys me.

[Shkembe Chorba]

I miss Hurrem sultana.

[Wild North]

Do Bosnians have problems understaning Croats/Serbs?

[Leto]

Do Bosnians have problems understaning Croats/Serbs?
No. Scientifically speaking it is the same language with slight regional variations. But fanatic nationalists will start throwing stones at me and cursing me. I've been there before. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian

[Voskos]

Bosnian sounds like Serbian to me

[Wild North]

No. Scientifically speaking it is the same language with slight regional variations. But fanatic nationalists will start throwing stones at me and cursing me. I've been there before. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian

It used to be called Serbo-Croatian in "ancient times". Before 1990 there were just Yugoslavs. Now it seems almost heretical to say "Serbo-Croatian". It has been broken down to several "distinct" languages like; Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. What´s next, Voivodinian lol..

[Leto]

It used to be called Serbo-Croatian in "ancient times". Before 1990 there were just Yugoslavs. Now it seems almost heretical to say "Serbo-Croatian". It has been broken down to several "distinct" languages like; Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. What´s next, Voivodinian lol..
But the thing is that all four literary varieties are based on the same dialect. Do you consider American and British varieties of English as separate languages? I don't think you do. Here the situation is pretty similar. Names of languages often have little or nothing to do with linguistics. It's politics.

[ulosupen]

same as serbian

[kkk77]

Slavic with some Italian accent.

I like the sound.

[interes]

arabi turkic