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| '''Bosnian Muslims'' or Bosniaks are ] inhabitants of ], a region in the west of the ]. Bosnian Muslims are Slavs who were - willingly or by force - converted to ] during the ] period. | '''Bosnian Muslims''' or Bosniaks are ] inhabitants of ], a region in the west of the ]. Bosnian Muslims are Slavs who were - willingly or by force - converted to ] during the ] period. | ||
| They speak a variant of the common ] language, written in the same form of the Latin alphabet which is also used in the Croat (or Western) variant of the Serbo-Croatian language. The main difference of the Bosnian language variant is that it contains many borrowings from ] - many of them being ] and ] in origin - due to the Islamic faith of Bosniaks. | They speak a variant of the common ] language, written in the same form of the Latin alphabet which is also used in the Croat (or Western) variant of the Serbo-Croatian language. The main difference of the Bosnian language variant is that it contains many borrowings from ] - many of them being ] and ] in origin - due to the Islamic faith of Bosniaks. | ||
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Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks are Muslim inhabitants of Bosnia, a region in the west of the Balkan Peninsula. Bosnian Muslims are Slavs who were - willingly or by force - converted to Islam during the Ottoman period.
They speak a variant of the common Serbo-Croatian language, written in the same form of the Latin alphabet which is also used in the Croat (or Western) variant of the Serbo-Croatian language. The main difference of the Bosnian language variant is that it contains many borrowings from Turkish - many of them being Arabic and Persian in origin - due to the Islamic faith of Bosniaks.
Bosnia forms now part of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former Yugoslav Republic, having gained its independence in 1995 after a long civil war.