Bosnia and Herzegovina Languages

Bosnians speak Serbo-Croatian, which is called Bosnian there. The Orthodox records are written in Serbian Church Slavonic script, derived from old Cyrillic script. The Catholic records are probably in Latin and later in Serbo-Croatian written in Roman script. Records of the Ottoman period are written in Ottoman Turkish (Turkish in Arabic script).

For word lists and help researching in Bosnia and Herzegovina records, see:
 * Serbo-Croatian Genealogical Word List
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Turkish Genealogical Word List

Bosnia Postal History can be used to study writing styles.