Bosnian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Bosniaks. It is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a co-official language in Montenegro, and an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2020-2023 estimate, native speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Bosnian: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionBosnia, Herzegovina and Sandžak 1 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Bosnian Language
Source Wikipedia: Bosnian Language
Written In
Standard Bosnian is written primarily in the Latin alphabet (Gaj's Latin alphabet).
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Bosnian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Bosniaks. It is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a co-official language in Montenegro, and an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
bos
Infobox: date
2020-2023
Infobox: region
Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sandžak
Official status, Bosnian entity page
It is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a co-official language in Montenegro, and an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
In Family: Balto-Slavic, Infobox: fam2
Balto-Slavic
In Family: South Slavic, Infobox, Language family
South Slavic
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