Southwestern Serbian town "won't speak Bosnian"

The local assembly in Priboj rejected a motion to use Bosnian as an official language in the municipality.

Source: FoNet
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This comes although the Serbian constitution gives the right to the country's ethnic minorities to use their own language and alphabet.

The assembly rejected an amendment presented by the SDP, SDA and LDP to have, in addition to the Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet, the Bosnian language and Latin alphabet as the official language in the municipality because of the Muslim, or Bosniak, minority that lives there.

Assembly deputy Kenan Hajdarević told FoNet news agency that he has already sent a letter to the Human and Minority Rights Ministry calling for Bosnian to be seen as an equal with Serbian in the municipality of Priboj.

According to the last local census, there are 30,377 residents of Priboj, of which 23 percent are Muslims, and the constitution, gives them the right to use their own language.

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