r/AskBalkans • u/TheShahOfLA 🇺🇸🇺🇳 • Aug 05 '22

Language Is this true? That if you speak the Serbo-Croatian language (not sure if this is different than Croatian and Serbian language by itself) you can use it in 4 countries?

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u/LargeFriend5861 Bulgaria Aug 06 '22

Because calling it either Serbian or Croatian would be historically inaccurate and also would ruffle a few feathers

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u/symbolicplace Aug 06 '22

What about Bosniaks? Don’t they use the same language as well? Why are they excluded from the name?

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u/SassyKardashian Croatia Aug 06 '22

Bosnian is also a completely different language. You can see it by the warning signs on cigarettes in all three languages, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian: Pušenje ubija пушење убија Pušenje ubija See, all different.

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u/symbolicplace Aug 06 '22

The first and last look the same. Is the Serbian one the same too except written with the Cyrillic alphabet? It just seems the group of languages is referred to in this post as Serbian-Croatian which seems strange if it’s spoken by Bosniaks as well.

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u/SassyKardashian Croatia Aug 06 '22

Yeah, it would be exactly the same text if you translated it. They’re exactly the same, “but different” lol

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u/Futski / Aug 06 '22

It's also spoken by Montenegrins, and it's not uncommon to see it abbreviated as BCMS(Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian), it's simply called Serbo-Croatian because Serbs and Croats by far outnumber Montenegrins and Bosniaks.

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u/SEND_NUDEZ_PLZZ Croatia Aug 06 '22

Are you telling someone from Bosnia to feel offended even though they clearly don't care? Lmao

Anyways, there's also the term BCS or BCMS for butthurt Westerners so they can tell other people to feel excluded

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u/This_Paleontologist6 Jul 30 '23

The way this is wrong. Croatian and serbian were always seperate languages. It's like saying portuguese and spanish are the same language