Locale Hr Ba

Reference data for the Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) locale — endonym Hrvatski (Bosna i Hercegovina), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: hr-BA
• ISO 639-1: hr
• ISO 639-3: hrv
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: BA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 400,000
• L2 (additional): 100,000
• L1+L2 (total): 500,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Hr 001 (Croatian), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, few, other (3 forms).

• one — v = 0 and i % 10 = 1 and i % 100 != 11 or f % 10 = 1 and f % 100 != 11 (e.g. 1, 21, 31, 41, …)
• few — v = 0 and i % 10 = 2..4 and i % 100 != 12..14 or f % 10 = 2..4 and f % 100 != 12..14 (e.g. 2~4, 22~24, 32~34, 42~44, …)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 5~19, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Hr 001 with the conventions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian).

• Context: Croatian is one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Latin script. Use Croatian forms and vocabulary rather than Bosnian or Serbian ones.
• Formats: convertible mark (KM, BAM); dates 17.10.2026.; decimal comma.
• Terminology: institution names in Bosnia and Herzegovina have official forms in each language; use the Croatian form.

Common pitfalls

• Using the euro or kuna for local prices.
• Mixing Bosnian vocabulary (hiljada, historija) into Croatian text.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Hr 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)