File:Bosnianlanguagemap.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ9303· pop 138· linked from 1,890 articles

Bosnian

Sign in to save

Also known as Bosnian language, Bosanski, Bosniak, Bosniak language

South Slavic language; a standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language

AI overview

Bosnian is a South Slavic language that developed as a standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a language spoken across multiple countries in the Balkans. It matters because it represents how the same language family can develop distinct written and spoken standards across different regions and communities.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Subclass of: Serbo-Croatian
Country: Turkey
Image: Gramatika bosanskog jezika 1890.jpg
Said to be same as: Serbo-Croatian

Show 13 more facts

native label: bosanski
Commons category: Bosnian language
Wikimedia language code: bs
writing system: Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
topic's main category: Category:Bosnian language
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3500000
linguistic typology: fusional language
category for films in this language: Category:Bosnian-language films
indigenous to: Bosnia and Herzegovina
short name: босниаг
P10369: Bahrain
P11012: photoheterotroph
P8168: Mahyalar

Sources (8)

via Wikidata · CC0

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Eastern South Slavic

Transitional dialects

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bosnian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (11)

Available in 127 languages

Show 108 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0