Editing Bosnian language (section)

==Differences between Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian==
{{Main|Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian}}
{{See also|Serbo-Croatian phonology|Serbo-Croatian grammar}}
The differences between the Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian literary standards are minimal. Although Bosnian employs more [[List of Serbo-Croatian words of Turkish origin|Turkish, Persian, and Arabic loanwords]]—commonly called orientalisms—mainly in its spoken variety due to the fact that most Bosnian speakers are Muslims, it is still very similar to both Serbian and Croatian in its written and spoken form.<ref>{{cite news |title=Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Or Montenegrin? Or Just 'Our Language'?|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=28 March 2009 |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Serbian_Croatian_Bosnian_or_Montenegrin_Many_In_Balkans_Just_Call_It_Our_Language_/1497105.html |publisher=[[Radio Free Europe]] |last1=Cvetkovic |first1=Ljudmila |last2=Vezic |first2=Goran }}</ref> "Lexical differences between the ethnic variants are extremely limited, even when compared with those between closely related Slavic languages (such as standard Czech and Slovak, Bulgarian and Macedonian), and grammatical differences are even less pronounced. More importantly, complete understanding between the ethnic variants of the standard language makes translation and second language teaching impossible."<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=166|doi=10.1017/9781108685795|isbn=978-953-313-086-6|s2cid=150383965|lccn=2018048005|oclc=1061308790}}</ref>

The Bosnian language, as a new normative register of the Shtokavian dialect, was officially introduced in 1996 with the publication of ''{{lang|bs|Pravopis bosanskog jezika}}'' in Sarajevo. According to that work, Bosnian differed from Serbian and Croatian on some main linguistic characteristics, such as: sound formats in some words, especially "h" ({{lang|bs|kahva}} versus Serbian {{lang|sr|kafa}}); substantial and deliberate usage of Oriental ("Turkish") words; spelling of future tense ({{lang|bs|kupit ću}}) as in Croatian but not Serbian ({{lang|sr|kupiću}}) (both forms have the same pronunciation).{{sfn|Sotirović|2014|p=48}} 2018, in the new issue of {{lang|bs|Pravopis bosanskog jezika}}, words without "h" are accepted due to their prevalence in language practice.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Zg3DRGByMok Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200224072839/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg3DRGByMok&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|last=Halilović|first=Senahid|author-link=Senahid Halilović|title=Halilović za N1: Dužni smo osluškivati javnu riječ|trans-title=Halilović for N1: We Have to Listen to the Public Word|language=sh|work=TV show N1 na jedan (host Nikola Vučić)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg3DRGByMok|date=26 April 2018|location=Sarajevo|publisher=[[N1 (TV channel)]]|access-date=26 November 2019}}{{cbignore}} (6-13 minute)</ref>