bosTechnical information about ISO 639 language code bos
The table below provides technical details for the Bosnian language, designated by the bos code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Bosnian Native Bosanski |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Eastern BosnianWestern Bosnian |
| Related languages | CroatianSerbianMontenegrin |
| Key facts | Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are accepted, though Latin is dominantThe modern standard was codified in the mid-1990s after earlier revival efforts in 1992Bosnian retains the consonant /h/ in many words where it is lost in Croatian and SerbianVocabulary contains a notably large layer of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian loan-wordsIt is mutually intelligible with Croatian and Serbian as part of the Neo-Štokavian dialect continuum |
| Sample phrase | Zdravo, kako si? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Bosnian language, identified by the code bos, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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