Historical and Socio-Political Features of Language in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnian language has always been a very sensitive question. Therefore, this paper deals with the reasons behind dissolution of Serbo-Croatian language into three different languages from the historical, socio-political and linguistic perspectives. There are no obvious linguistic differences among three languages that emerged after the dissolution of ex-Yugoslavia, however today in Bosnia-Herzegovina there are three official languages in use.  The reasons behind this are numerous and in order to understand disagreement among different people regarding the question of language one has to look into history as the historical developments determined the role and position of languages in Bosnia-Herzegovina.