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bosBosnian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Bosnian ( , Cyrillic: ) is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The same subdialect of Shtokavian is also the basis of standard Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin, so all are mutually intelligible. Up until the dissolution of former SFR Yugoslavia, they were treated as a unitary Serbo-Croatian language, and that term is still used to refer to the common base (vocabulary, grammar and syntax) of what are today officially four national standards. The Bosnian standard uses both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. The first dictionary in the Bosnian language was printed in the early 17th century, while first dictionary in Serbian was printed in the early 19th century.

Entry terms

  • Bosnian language

ISO 639-1 code

  • bs

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bos

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bos

ISO 639-3 code

  • bos

Notation

  • bos

In other languages

  • Bosnien

    French

  • bosniaque
  • Bosnisch

    German

  • Bosnische Sprache
  • bosniaco

    Italian

  • Lingua bosniaca
  • Portuguese

  • Língua bósnia
  • bosnio

    Spanish

  • Idioma bosnio

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bos

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