Editing Serbo-Croatian (section)

== Demographics ==
[[File:Map of Serbo-Croatian language.png|thumbnail|300px|{{legend|#004DFF|Countries where a standard form of Serbo-Croatian is an official language}}
{{legend|#88C4FF|Countries where one or more forms are designated as minority languages}}]]
About {{sigfig|18.167506|2}} million people declare their native language as either 'Bosnian', 'Croatian', 'Serbian', 'Montenegrin', or 'Serbo-Croatian'.<ref name="e27"/>

Serbian is spoken by {{sigfig|10.300476|2}} million people around the world, mostly in Serbia ({{sigfig|7.760000|2}} million), Bosnia and Herzegovina ({{sigfig|1.170000|2}} million), and Montenegro ({{sigfig|266000|1}}). Besides these, Serbian minorities are found in [[Kosovo]], [[North Macedonia]] and in [[Romania]].<ref name="e25srp">{{e25|srp|Serbian}}</ref> In Serbia, there are about 760,000 second-language speakers of Serbian, including Hungarians in [[Vojvodina]] and the 400,000 estimated Roma.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} In [[Kosovo]], Serbian is spoken by the members of the [[Kosovo Serbs|Serbian minority]] which approximates between 70,000 and 100,000.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ramet|first1=Sabrina P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpEwDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA267|title=Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Post-Socialist Southeastern Europe|last2=Valenta|first2=Marko|date=2016-09-22|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-98277-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2019-11-07|title=Kosovo's Demographic Destiny Looks Eerily Familiar|url=https://balkaninsight.com/2019/11/07/kosovos-demographic-destiny-looks-eerily-familiar/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Balkan Insight|language=en-US}}</ref> Familiarity of [[Kosovar Albanians]] with Serbian varies depending on age and education, and exact numbers are not available.

Croatian is spoken by {{sigfig|6.765010|2}} million people in the world, including {{sigfig|4.100000|2}} million in Croatia and {{sigfig|554000|1}} in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref name="e25hrv">{{e25|hrv|Croatian}}</ref> A small Croatian minority that lives in Italy, known as [[Molise Croats]], have somewhat preserved traces of Croatian. In Croatia, 170,000, mostly [[Italians]] and [[Hungarians]], use it as a [[second language]].{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Bosnian is spoken by {{sigfig|2.730720|2}} million people worldwide, chiefly [[Bosniaks]], including {{sigfig|2.010000|2}} million in Bosnia and Herzegovina, {{sigfig|172,000|1}} in Serbia and {{sigfig|36,700|1}} in Montenegro.<ref name="e25bos">{{e25|bos|Bosnian}}</ref>

Montenegrin is spoken by {{sigfig|265,660|1}} people globally.<ref name="e25cnr">{{e25|cnr|Montenegrin}}</ref> The notion of Montenegrin as a separate standard from Serbian is relatively recent. In the 2011 census, around 229,251 Montenegrins, of the country's 620,000, declared Montenegrin as their native language.

Serbo-Croatian is also a [[second language]] of many [[Slovenians]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YuBEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Od%20Vardara%20pa%20do%20Triglava%22&pg=PA198 |last=Törnquist-Plewa |first=Barbara |title=The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe |date=2002 |page=198 |editor-last=Resic |editor-first=Sanimir |publisher=Nordic Academic Press |location=Lund, Sweden |isbn=9789187121708 |oclc=802047788}}</ref> and [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]], especially those born during the time of Yugoslavia. According to the 2002 census, Serbo-Croatian and its variants have the largest number of speakers of the minority languages in Slovenia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inv.si/DocDir/Publikacije-PDF/Raziskovalna%20porocila/Raziskava_Polozaj_in_status_pripadnikov_narodov_nekdanje_Jugoslavije_v_RS.pdf|title=Raziskava Položaj in status pripadnikov narodov nekdanje Jugoslavije vRS.pdf|language=sl|access-date=2010-11-25|archive-date=2011-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007115553/http://www.inv.si/DocDir/Publikacije-PDF/Raziskovalna%20porocila/Raziskava_Polozaj_in_status_pripadnikov_narodov_nekdanje_Jugoslavije_v_RS.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>