bosnian article the common base vocabulary grammar and syntax of what are today officially four national standards is sometimes subsumed under the term serbo croatian in english dating from the th century this term was modeled on both croatian and serbian nationalists of the time and is today controversial for native speakers tag on the discussion page of bosnian language use of that term in english which dates back at least to and was modeled on both croatian and serbian nationalists of the time is not a political endorsement of yugoslavia but is simply a label croatian article these four dialects and the four national standards are sometimes subsumed under the term serbo croatian in english though this term is controversial for native speakers and paraphrases such as bosnian croatian montenegrin serbian are therefore sometimes used instead especially in diplomatic circles bosnian article as result paraphrases such as bosnian croatian serbian bcs are instead used increasingly especially in official context serbo croatian article prior to the th century they were called illyric slavic slavonian bosnian dalmatian serbian or croatian bosnian article prior to the th century the various contemporary standards were called illyric slavic slavonian bosnian dalmatian serbian or croatian i rest my case and in case you really want to push i truly hope you have a good explanation other than that it sounds a bit strange