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Languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina. 3,915,000. National or official languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. Literacy rate: 92%. Immigrant languages: Aromanian, Italian (4,000), Standard German, Turkish (50,000). Also includes Albanian. The number of individual languages listed for Bosnia and Herzegovina is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
Bosnian

[bos] 2,000,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004). Population total all countries: 2,203,800. Also in Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia. Dialects: Ijekavían, Ikavian. Shares lexical items with both Serbian [srp] and Croatian [hrv].  Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western 
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Croatian

[hrv] 469,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004).  Dialects: Croatian, Serbian.  Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western 
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Romani, Vlax

[rmy] 400,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004).  Alternate names: Danubian, Gypsy, Tsigene, Vlax.  Dialects: Serbo-Bosnian (Machwaya, Machvano), Kalderash, Southern Vlax.  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax 
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Serbian

[srp] 1,300,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004).  Alternate names: Montenegrin.  Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western 
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