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Ronelle Alexander, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Grammar With Sociolinguistic Commentary (2006); Robert Greenberg, Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croat and Its Disintegration, updated ed. (2008; also published as Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration); Milorad Radovanović, "From Serbo-Croatian to Serbian." Multilingua—Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 19:1–2, 21–36 (2000).

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New table added. Apr 16, 2025
Modified link of Web site: Academia - Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian: Notes on contact and conflict (PDF). Mar 07, 2025
Add new Web site: UC Berkeley Open Book Publishing - The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition - Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian. Jan 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian: Notes on contact and conflict (PDF). Nov 26, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - LibGuides - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Languages: Dictionaries and Grammar. Aug 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Austrian Academy of Sciences - Bosnian/Croatian/�Montenegrin�/Serbian. Sep 26, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Cambridge Language Centre Resources - Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin & Serbian. Jun 05, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Article retitled to reflect current scholarship on the language formerly known as Serbo-Croatian. Dec 17, 2020
Article revised. Aug 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Duke University - Duke University Slavic Centers - Reference Grammars. Aug 07, 2014
Add new Web site: Duke University - Duke University Slavic Centers - Reference Grammars. Aug 07, 2014
Dropped word "were" added to the sentence about the creation of Yugoslavia. Also spelling of "Bosniac" changed to "Bosniak." Apr 27, 2011
Add new Web site: Omniglot - Serbo-Croatian language issues. Jan 26, 2011
Add new Web site: Center for Applied Linguistics - Serbo-Croatian Language. Jan 26, 2011
New bibliography added. Dec 07, 2010
Article revised and updated. Oct 25, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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