Language
Bosnia has three official languages. They are Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. All three are mutually understandable, along with the language spoken in Montenegro. There are minor dialect differences, but not to the point where its just to consider them all different languages.
The language was standardized in the mid-19th century. The language was derived from Shtokavian, which is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. There are differences because of the diverse history in the area, and constant rule by differing empires. Two alphabets were standardized, one being latin based and the other using Cyrillic characters.
The Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian language is an inflected language.
The alphabet is shown both in Cyrillic and Latin forms below.
The language was standardized in the mid-19th century. The language was derived from Shtokavian, which is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. There are differences because of the diverse history in the area, and constant rule by differing empires. Two alphabets were standardized, one being latin based and the other using Cyrillic characters.
The Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian language is an inflected language.
The alphabet is shown both in Cyrillic and Latin forms below.
Phonology: Vowels are below followed by Consonants which lack palatalization.
There are 7 tenses for verbs. They are: past, present, future, aorist, imperfect, exact future, and pasquamperfect, as well as 3 moods which are: indicative, conditional, and imperative. The Stokavian verb has 2 aspects being imperfective and perfective.
Pronaounciation of letters is below.
Pronaounciation of letters is below.
Morphology: The Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian language is an inflected language. There are 7 cases for nouns and adjectives. They are: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, and instrumental. The language is similar to other Slavic languages having 3 genders for nouns, which are masculine, feminine and neuter.
Adjectives are placed in front of the nouns that they modify and have to agree in case and number.
Pronouns include reflexive, personal, demonstrative, possessive, relative, negative, indefinite, and interrogative.
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian is a phonetic language that is easy to write, once you can understand what is being said.