Bosnian

E72239

South Slavic language pluricentric language variety standardized language

Bosnian is a South Slavic language primarily spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina and by Bosniak communities in the Balkans and worldwide.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bosnian language	6

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	South Slavic language ⓘ pluricentric language variety ⓘ standardized language ⓘ
alphabetSizeLatin	30 letters ⓘ
alsoWrittenIn	Cyrillic script ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Croatian ⓘ Montenegrin ⓘ Serbian ⓘ
consideredBySomeAs	variant of Serbo-Croatian ⓘ
coOfficialStatusIn	Bosnian and Herzegovinian entities ⓘ
distinguishedBy	frequent use of the phoneme /h/ ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated	Bosniaks ⓘ
hasCaseSystem	yes ⓘ
hasDefiniteArticle	no ⓘ
hasGrammaticalGender	yes ⓘ
hasPhoneme	/h/ ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	bs ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	bos ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	bos ⓘ
languageFamily	Slavic languages ⓘ
macrolanguageContext	Serbo-Croatian ⓘ
numberOfGenders	3 ⓘ
numberOfGrammaticalCases	7 ⓘ
officialLanguageOf	Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ
primaryCountry	Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ
primaryWordOrder	SVO ⓘ
regulatedBy	Institute for the Bosnian Language ⓘ
spokenIn	Australia ⓘ Austria ⓘ Canada ⓘ Croatia ⓘ Germany ⓘ Kosovo ⓘ Montenegro ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Serbia ⓘ Slovenia ⓘ Sweden ⓘ Turkey ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
standardBasedOn	Shtokavian dialect ⓘ surface form: Neo-Shtokavian dialect Shtokavian dialect ⓘ
standardizationPeriod	1990s ⓘ
subfamily	South Slavic languages ⓘ
subgroup	Western South Slavic languages ⓘ
usesDiacritics	yes ⓘ
usesLatinDigraph	dž ⓘ lj ⓘ nj ⓘ
writingDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ