Locale Sr Ba
Use when working with the Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) locale (`sr-BA`) — its endonym Српски (Босна и Херцеговина), Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) locale — endonym Српски (Босна и Херцеговина), written in the Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
sr-BA - ISO 639-1:
sr - ISO 639-3:
srp - Script: Cyrl (Cyrillic)
- Region: BA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 1,200,000
- L2 (additional): 200,000
- L1+L2 (total): 1,400,000
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale Sr 001 (Serbian), 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 Sr 001 with the conventions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbian).
- Variant: Serbian in Bosnia (especially Republika Srpska) is usually ijekavian:
лијепо,млијеко,ријеч. Use ijekavian forms unless the audience requires ekavian. - Script: Cyrillic and Latin are both used; Republika Srpska officials use Cyrillic.
- Formats: convertible mark (
КМ,BAM); dates17.10.2026.; decimal comma. - Context: Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are all official; do not replace Serbian forms with Bosnian or Croatian forms in Serbian-language content.
Common pitfalls
- Using ekavian forms for a Republika Srpska audience.
- Mixing Bosnian or Croatian terms into Serbian text.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Sr 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)