Seventeen years after the First Symposium on Bosnian Language in Bihac, 1998, the UNSA Institute for Language organized the Second Symposium on the Bosnian language. The aforementioned Institute for Language was also the organizer of the first symposium.

This scientific meeting was held at the Hotel Holiday in Sarajevo on 12 and 13 March 2015. In the symposium’s  organization and realization participated scientists from various educational institutions (mostly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, two from Serbia, one from Kosovo and one from Germany). Thirty-three papers were presented during thematically related eight sessions, covering the areas of the history of language, language standardization, lexicography, dialectology, pragmatic linguistics and Bosnian language methodology of teaching. The presented papers will be published in the Second Symposium on the Bosnian Language’s Book of Proceedings. The organizer used this occasion to Institute’s publications that visitors could purchase at promotional prices. In addition, on this occasion, the Bibliography of the Institute of Language (1972-2014) was promoted. The organizer also invited all participants to present their publications, therefore enabling visitors to see the latest releases related to the Bosnistika.

After the opening ceremony, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science Minister Damir Masic addressed the attendees and emphasized the importance of holding similar gatherings and their receiving state funding. After Minister Masic’s speech, assistant to Minister for Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Higher Education and Science Ministry of Education, Science and Youth, Sifet Kukuruz addressed the attendees. On behalf of the University of Sarajevo, Prof. Dr. Ugo Vlaisavljevic, Vice-Rector delivered the speech. At on behalf of the symposium organizer,  Dr. Sc. Alen Kalajdzija, Institute Director, delivered speech in which  he said  that one of the objectives of the Symposium was to send a message to the public to think, speak and write in Bosnian, and that the Bosnian language was inseparable part of our intellectual beings, national identity, cultural integrity and our moral obligation.

In addition to scholars who participated in the realization of the Second Symposium on the Bosnian Language, the program was followed by many university professors, teachers in primary and secondary schools, students and other interested parties.