Bosnians
Bosnians ( Serbo-Croatian Bosanci / Босанци ) mostly refer to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes only residents of the Bosnia part of the country , regardless of which religion or ethnicity they belong to.
In everyday language, however, the term is often used synonymously with Bosniaks in the sense of a supposed titular nation . That term, however, only refers to the Bosnian Muslims (in the ethnic sense), ignoring the Bosnian Serbs and Croats.
ethnicities
Most Bosnians belong to one or more of the country's three major ethnic groups - Bosniaks , Croats and Serbs - who have developed along denominational lines but speak the same language.
Religions
According to the census of 2013, a majority of approximately 50.7% for committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina Islam (mostly Bosniaks), followed by orthodox Christianity with about 30.7% (mostly Serb Bosnians) and the Roman Catholic Church with approx. 15.2% (mostly Croatian Bosnians). 0.3% are agnostics and 0.8% are atheists. 2.3% belong to other religions or gave no answer.
language
The vast majority of Bosnians speak the štokavian-Ijekavian variant of Serbo-Croatian , which is known as Bosnian , Croatian or Serbian depending on personal preference . The indications naš jezik (“our language”) or Lokalni jezik (“local language”) are also widespread in order to circumvent the ethnic classification. Romani is an important minority language .
Bosnian diaspora
In the diaspora , Bosnians live mainly in North America and Western Europe. Most of them came there as migrant workers (“guest workers”) or, after the outbreak of the war in Bosnia in 1992, as war refugees.
Numerous Muslim Bosnians had fled to Turkey as muhajir as early as the 19th century and are still an important community there today.
