Language code: bs
Technical information about ISO 639 language code bs
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The table below provides technical details for the Bosnian language, designated by the bs code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Bosnian Native Bosanski |
| Family | South Slavic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Ijekavian Štokavian |
| Related languages | CroatianSerbianMontenegrin |
| Key facts | Written in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts, though Latin is dominantStandard Bosnian derives from the Eastern Herzegovinian Neo-Štokavian Ijekavian dialectVocabulary contains many Turkish, Arabic and Persian loanwords from the Ottoman periodRetains the phoneme “h” in words where Croatian or Serbian often omit it (e.g., kahva vs. kafa/kava)One of the earliest works in the language is the Bosnian–Turkish dictionary compiled by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi in 1631. |
| Sample phrase | Zdravo, kako si? |
| Character encodings | |
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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
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*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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- Localization workflow
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- Project branching
- Professional translation services
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
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- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ