"a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"
There are definitely more differences between the lexicon and grammar of those languages apart from the alphabet they are written with.
Not very big differences, mind you. But ignoring them altogether or making them bigger than what they are enters the realm of politics.
Anyway, the english wikipedia article does a decent job capturing a few key differences in the dialect continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian...