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The same subdialect of Shtokavian is also the basis of standard Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin, so all are mutually intelligible. Up until the dissolution of former SFR Yugoslavia, they were treated as a unitary Serbo-Croatian language, and that term is still used to refer to the common base (vocabulary, grammar and syntax) of what are today officially four national standards. The Bosnian standard uses both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet. The first dictionary in the Bosnian language was printed in the early 17th century, while first dictionary in Serbian was printed in the early 19th century. Sometimes, the name of the language is referred to as Bosniak (also spelled "Bosniac"; bošnjački), mostly by Croats and Serbs stating it is the standard language just of ethnic Bosniaks, not of ethnic Croats and Serbs who respectively use Croatian or Serbian language standard. |