Socio-and geolinguistic data
Genealogical placing and number of speakers
The language which in linguistic literature is most commonly called Serbo-Croatian (SC) belongs to the Southern branch of the Slavonic group of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by approximately 17 million people in four of the six republics of the former Yugoslavia: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina. After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, each of the three countries which emerged from four republics now calls this language according to its ethnic identity: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian.1 It is also spoken by expatriates, particularly in Western Europe, and certain cities in the North and South America and Australia.

Dialects and the standard language
Of the three dialects spoken in the area of the present-day SC (Stokavian, Kajkavian, Cakavian), in the 19th century, the Stokavian was chosen for the basis of the standard because it was the most widely spread dialect: it was spoken in all Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Montenegro, and a larger part of Croatia, east and south-east of the Cakavian and the Kajkavian dialect.

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