Language code: bs

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bs

The table below provides technical details for the Bosnian language, designated by the bs code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

bs

Name

Official

Bosnian

Native

Bosanski

Family
South Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Bosnian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the South Slavic subgroup. It is used as an official language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside Serbian and Croatian. It is also recognized as a minority language in Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro. Bosnian is written using the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is estimated that there are more than 1.7 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Bosnian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

bs-Cyrl Bosnian (Cyrillic)

bs-Cyrl-BA Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

bs-Latn Bosnian (Latin)

bs-Latn-BA Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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