Bosnian

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A language of Bosnia and Herzegovina

ISO 639-3
bos
Population

2,000,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004). Population total all countries: 2,216,000.

Location

Also in Canada, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia.

Language Status

1 (National). Statutory national language (1995, Federation Constitution, Article 6(1)).

Classification
Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
Dialects

Ijekavían, Ikavian. Lexical similarity: with Serbian [srp] and Croatian [hrv].

Typology

SVO

Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 97%. Dictionary. Bible: 1804–1968.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Bosnian
Writing
Cyrillic script. Latin script.
Other Comments

There are influences from Turkish [tur] and Arabic [arb]. Muslim, Christian, Jewish.

Also spoken in:

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