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