This language uses a Cyrillic and Latin alphabet and it still has Latin in its' everyday today! One major factor of the language is that there are a large amount of loan words from Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Persian. This can be attributed to the occupation of the area by each language at one point or another. The Bosnian elite actually wrote predominantly in these languages. ("Collection of printed books in Arabic, Turkish and Persian", 2014).
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Figure 7. Bosnian Alphabet. |
Serbian is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Chroatian ("Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Or Montenegrin? Or Just 'Our Language'?", 2009). Serbian uses a fully functional digraphic, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. All literate members of society are able to interchangeably use the two different writing systems available to them. There a lots of loan words from basically every major language origin, including German.
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Figure 8. Serbian Alphabet. |
Croatian is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language (Dalby, 1999, p.445). It only uses the Latin alphabet. This alphabet structure is the biggest difference the Croatian language has compared to the Serbian language. There is also a little bit of a difference in its' lexical structure, but it is almost unnoticeable to many.
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Figure 9. Croatian Alphabet. |