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Language code: bos

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bos

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The table below provides technical details for the Bosnian language, designated by the bos code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bos

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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