Bosnian Language Services in the UK

About Our Bosnian Services

Bosnian is a South Slavic language and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside Croatian and Serbian. The three are mutually intelligible standard varieties of the same underlying language, once known jointly as Serbo-Croatian, and speakers of one generally understand the others without difficulty. Bosnian is normally written in the Latin alphabet, though Cyrillic is also officially recognised. Around two and a half million people speak it in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with further communities in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, and a diaspora across Western Europe, North America and Australia that grew sharply during the wars of the 1990s. Compared with Croatian and Serbian, the Bosnian standard admits rather more loanwords of Turkish, Arabic and Persian origin, a legacy of the Ottoman period.

Prism Linguistics provides Bosnian translation, interpreting and transcription across the UK in 300+ languages. Whether you need a certified document for the Home Office, a court interpreter, an NHS appointment or a business meeting, our vetted native-speaker linguists are ready to help.