Serbo-Croatian

Also known as BHS, Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Serbo-Croatian language, BCS, BCMS

Serbo-Croatian, also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a Western South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

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Serbo-Croatian is a Western South Slavic language spoken primarily in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, where it serves as the main language for millions of people. Though it has four distinct standard varieties—Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin—speakers of these varieties can understand each other because they are mutually intelligible.

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Key facts

Language.lc4: srp
Language.ld4: Serbian
Language.ietf: sh
Language.altname: Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian
Language.nativename: /
Language.speakers: million
Language.date: 2020–2023
Language.familycolor: Indo-European
Language.fam2: Balto-Slavic
Language.fam3: Slavic
Language.fam4: South Slavic
Language.fam5: Western South Slavic
Language.stand1: Bosnian
Language.stand2: Croatian
Language.stand3: Montenegrin
Language.stand4: Serbian
Language.iso1: sh
Language.iso1comment: (deprecated)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: pluricentric language
Subclass of: Western South Slavic
Country: Yugoslavia
Image: Razvod.jpg
Said to be same as: Montenegrin

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female form of label: la langue serbo-croate
writing system: Latin script
Commons category: Serbo-Croatian language
Wikimedia language code: hbs
native label: српскохрватски језик
topic's main category: Category:Serbo-Croatian
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 19000000
linguistic typology: fusional language
topic has template: Template:Serbo-Croatian language
category for films in this language: Category:Serbo-Croatian-language films
short name: хрватскосрпски
exact match: afbo.info/languages/103
Wikimedia Incubator URL: incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/sh
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has characteristic: agreement

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Encyclopedic overview

31 sections

Contents

Name
History
Early history
Standardization
Legal status
Modern developments
Demographics
Grammar
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Pitch accent
Orthography
Writing systems
Dialectology
Classification by ''jat'' reflex
Sociolinguistic debate
Views of linguists in the former Yugoslavia
Views of Croatian linguists
Views of Serbian linguists
Views within nationalist linguistics
Views of international linguists
Views of international organizations
Derived words in English
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
External links

The western Balkans' turbulent history, particularly due to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, led to a complex dialectal and religious mosaic. Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread supradialect in the region, encroaching westward into the area previously dominated by Chakavian and Kajkavian. Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural spheres, although large portions of these populations lived side by side under foreign rule. During that period, the language was referred to by various names, such as "Slavic" in general, or "Serbian", "Croatian" or "Bosnian" in particular. In a classicizing manner, it was also referred to as "Illyrian".

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