Bosnian language

Bosnian is a South Slavic language and the language of Bosniaks, spoken mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the surrounding countries of the Balkans. Bosnian is written in Latin script.

Bosnian
bosanski/босански
Pronunciation	[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Native to	Bosnia and neighboring regions, Bosnian diaspora
Native speakers	2.5–3.5 million  (date missing) (number is ambiguous)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Bosnian
Writing system	Latin (Gaj) Cyrillic (Serbian) Bosnian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Recognised minority language in	Albania Serbia Kosovo
Language codes
ISO 639-1	bs
ISO 639-2	bos
ISO 639-3	bos
Linguasphere	part of 53-AAA-g

Bosnian Language Media

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  Old Bosnian alphabets: bosančica (top line) and arebica (bottom line), compared with contemporary latinica (middle line)

• A Bosnian speaker, recorded in Kosovo

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  School book of Latin and Bosnian, 1827

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  Gramatika bosanskoga jezika za srednje škole.

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  A cigarette warning "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you", ostensibly in three languages. The "Bosnian" and "Croatian" versions are identical and the "Serbian" one is a Cyrilic transliteration of the exact same text.

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  Nauk krstjanski za narod slovinski, by Matija Divković, the first Bosnian printed book. Published in Venice, 1611

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  Bosnian dictionary by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi, 1631