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

[Dušan]

Only part of present day Croatia where shtokavian was spoken in the middle age is southern Dalmatia. In other parts of modern Croatia shtokavian is imported with migration of Orthodox Serbs, Šokci and Bunjevci in Ottoman time and after Ottomans.

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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.

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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."

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

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[Dna8]

They are equivalent to one part of Spain/France/Italy/Germany.

[Dna8]

lol I enjoyed, palpable, sean.

[sean]

Serbs and Bosniaks are obviously European types nonetheless and I see very little differences between Balkan Slavs. The only difference that I see is religion, while some of them say themselves that there are big genetic differences between them.

No wonder why they occupy every another thread on TA arguing how the balkan war should have been fought.

They all have this massive princess complex, and delusion of the average balkanite is palpable.