Linguistically one language
According to what I have studied, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian are linguistically one language. There is however, a distinction between them according to the script which is utilized. The Croats, being predominantly Roman Catholic, use the Latin alphabet, while the Serbs, being traditionally tied to the Eastern Orthodox Church, may use both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. Bosnian also has been influenced by Arabic and Turkish.
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Though we identify ourselves by language and like to make distance from each other, I think that from the linguistically point of view, yes, those three languages show dialectal differences - some difference in syntax and great variety of lexical diversity... Catalan is obviously different from Portuguese (they don't understand each other) so that comparison doesn't work...
This is a completely false and dangerous statement to make. This is like saying that Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan are one language ....which is absurd. Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are three similar languages, but not one language. We do understand each other, but we speak different languages.
I totally disagree with Marijana!
In the case of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan you could never say they are the same language, since speakers would have to make such an effort to understand each other (I know it for sure), as not the case of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian.
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