Re: Bosnian language

Roman you are right, it is mostly political issue - and the one that will not be solved in near future. Serbs and Croats insist that language is named bosnjacki (and is used only by Bosniaks), while Bosniaks insist on naming it bosanski (and implying that it is used by all inhabitanats of Bosnia). Name bosanski is used throughout constitution of Bosnian Federation, and I believe that we should stick with official naming.

 



----- Original Message -----
From: Roman Maurer <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 0:39 am
Subject: Re: [Intlwiki-l] Bosnian language

> Denny Vrandecic wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday someone changed the Bosnian word for 'Bosnian' (for 
> their own
> > language) from 'Bosanski' to 'Bosnjacki' on their own, on the 
> Croatian and
> > on the Serbian Wikipedia. Scanning with Google, there were 
> 120,000 hits for
> > 'Bosanski', and some 2,300 for 'Bosnjacki'.
> > 
> > I wanted to ask, maybe someone knows about the difference 
> between this words
> > and can point out, which one should be used (this refers to the 
> other> Wikipedias as well). I wouldn't like to make this wrong, as 
> it is a rather
> > touchy issue...
> 
> The difference between "bosanski" and "bošnja?ki", as I see it, is 
> that 
> the former applies to the country of Bosnia, while the latter 
> applies to 
> the language spoken by Bosniaks, eg. predominanly people of Muslim 
> heritage from Bosnia that consider their language neither Croatian 
> nor 
> Serbian, or to these people.
> 
> Disclaimer: I am Slovene native speaker so I might be wrong ... 
> just my 
> 2 stotins.
> -- 
> 	Pozdrav,
>          Roman
> 
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