Bosnian language facts for kids

Quick facts for kidsBosnian
	bosanski/босански
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; Montenegro
Recognised minority language in	Albania; Serbia; Macedonia; Kosovo
Linguasphere	part of 53-AAA-g
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

Bosnian is language of Bosniaks, spoken mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the surrounding countries of Europe.

Images for kids

School book of Latin and Bosnian, 1827
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" is a transliteration of the same.
Nauk krstjanski za narod slovinski, by Matija Divković, the first Bosnian printed book. Published in Venice, 1611
Bosnian dictionary by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi, 1631