Language · ISO 639-3 bos · bs
Bosnian Language bosanski
Bosnian is a language spoken by about 3.8 million people in 1 country. It is an official language of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is written in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
Where Bosnian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bosnian
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin and Cyrillic scripts
About the Bosnian language
Bosnian (bosanski) is spoken by about 3.8 million people, which makes it the 217th most spoken language in the world — just behind Southern Balochi (3.8 million) and ahead of Sidamo (3.8 million).
Where is Bosnian spoken?
Bosnian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Bosnia and Herzegovina (3.8 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Bosnia and Herzegovina — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Bosnian is an official language in 1 country: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Writing system and status
Bosnian is written in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 bs, ISO 639-3 bos.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.