Editing Serbian language (section)

==Classification==
{{see also|Serbo-Croatian#History|l1=History of Serbo-Croatian}}

Serbian is a standardized variety of [[Serbo-Croatian]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Šipka|first=Danko|author-link=Danko Sipka|year=2019|title=Lexical layers of identity: words, meaning, and culture in the Slavic languages|location=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=206|doi=10.1017/9781108685795|isbn=978-953-313-086-6|s2cid=150383965 |lccn=2018048005 |oclc=1061308790|quote=Serbo-Croatian, which features four ethnic variants: Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kordić |first=Snježana |author-link=Snježana Kordić |year=2010 |language=sh |title=Jezik i nacionalizam |trans-title=Language and Nationalism |url=http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/475567.Jezik_i_nacionalizam.pdf |series=Rotulus Universitas |url-status=live |location=Zagreb |publisher=Durieux |page=143 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.3467646 |isbn=978-953-188-311-5 |lccn=2011520778 |oclc=729837512 |ol=15270636W |id={{CROSBI|475567}}. [http://www.vbs.rs/scripts/cobiss?command=DISPLAY&base=cobib&rid=521757076 COBISS-Sr 521757076]|archive-date=1 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601175359/http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/475567.Jezik_i_nacionalizam.pdf |access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref> a [[Slavic language]] ([[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]), of the [[South Slavic languages|South Slavic]] subgroup. Other standardized forms of Serbo-Croatian are [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], and [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]]. "An examination of all the major 'levels' of language shows that BCS is clearly a single language with a single grammatical system."<ref>{{cite journal|title=To what degree are Croatian and Serbian the same language? Evidence from a Translation Study|last=Bailyn|first=John Frederick|journal=Journal of Slavic Linguistics|year=2010|volume=18|issue=2|pages=181–219|url=https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/people/_bios/_linguistics-faculty/_faculty-files/bailyn/publications/JSLBCS2.pdf|access-date=9 October 2019|issn=1068-2090|archive-date=9 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009113158/https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/people/_bios/_linguistics-faculty/_faculty-files/bailyn/publications/JSLBCS2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has lower intelligibility with the Eastern South Slavic languages [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] and [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], than with [[Slovene language|Slovene]] (Slovene is part of the Western South Slavic subgroup, but there are still significant differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to the standardized forms of Serbo-Croatian, although it is closer to the [[Kajkavian dialect|Kajkavian]] and [[Chakavian dialect]]s of Serbo-Croatian<ref name="Greenberg">Greenberg, Marc L., ''A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene,'' (''LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics'' 30). Munich: LINCOM, 2008. {{ISBN|3-89586-965-1}}</ref>).