Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: the useful differences

It is one language with three standards: everyone understands each other. The differences are mostly in vocabulary.

English	Bosnian	Croatian	Serbian
bread	hljeb	kruh	hleb
coffee	kafa / kahva	kava	kafa
train	voz	vlak	voz
week	sedmica	tjedan	nedelja / sedmica
history	historija	povijest	istorija
who / what	ko / šta	tko / što	ko / šta
thousand	hiljada	tisuća	hiljada
July	juli	srpanj	jul
exact	tačno	točno	tačno

Grammar: Croatian prefers the infinitive (Moram ići), Serbian da + present (Moram da idem), Bosnian uses both. Future: radit ću (bs, hr) / radiću (sr).
Borrowed verbs: -irati in Croatian (organizirati), -ovati in Serbian (organizovati), both in Bosnian.
Bosnian keeps an h in some words (lahko, mehko, kahva, sahat) and has many words of Turkish origin (komšija — neighbour, avlija — courtyard, ćuprija — bridge).
Script: Serbian is also written in Cyrillic; the letters match the Latin ones one to one.

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