Bosnian
From the Balkans
Bosnian refers to anything from or relating to Bosnia, a region in southeastern Europe that forms most of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As a noun, a Bosnian is a person from Bosnia: My neighbor is Bosnian.
The term also designates the South Slavic language spoken there, closely related to Croatian and Serbian.
The Bosnian War of the 1990s followed Yugoslavia's breakup.
South Slavic Muslim ethnicity
- CroatsCitizens of Zagreb's country
- SerbsBalkan ethnic group
- MuslimsAdherents of Islam
- CatholicsChristians following Rome
multiethnic · federation · intermarriage · diaspora · refugee · displacement · reconciliation
Former South Slav federation
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
- Austro-HungarianFormer Central European empire
- TitoYugoslav communist president
- BalkanizationSplintering into antagonistic regions
Grilled minced meat rolls
Slavic alphabet system
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- dialectologyStudy of regional speech differences
bilingualism · Bosniak · Croatian · Serbian · diglossia · linguistic
Bosniaks
South Slavic Muslim ethnicity
Catholics · multiethnic · federation · intermarriage · diaspora · refugee · displacement · reconciliation
Sarajevo
Bosnia's chief city
Yugoslavia
Former South Slav federation
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
- Austro-HungarianFormer Central European empire
- TitoYugoslav communist president
Balkanization · Yugoslav Wars · Non-Aligned Movement · Habsburg
ćevapi
Grilled minced meat rolls
Cyrillic
Slavic alphabet system
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
dialectology · bilingualism · Bosniak · Croatian · Serbian · diglossia · linguistic
tambura
South Asian drone lute
- hamamTraditional steam bath
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- Indo-European LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Spanish, Italian
- European LanguagesGerman, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- European peoplesGermans, Italians, Greeks, French, Poles
- EuropeansAustrian, Belgian, Brit, Briton, Bulgarian
- Slavic cultureRussian, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian
BosnianSerbian
Of or from Serbia
Croatian · Montenegrin · Slovenian · Macedonian · Albanian
- Bosnian War1990s Balkan ethnic conflict
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaSoutheastern European country