The focus of the paper is the conflict centred around orthography in Bosnia and Herzegovina between advocates of the Karadžić-Daničić concept of language and those of a moderate morphophonemic concept based on the language of the Zagreb Philological School. Special attention will be dedicated to two sessions of the committee for orthography held in 1883 and to the proposal, presented by Kosta Hörmann and Ljuboje Dlustuš, for the preservation and recovery of morphophonemic orthography in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their proposals will be compared with those presented by Vatroslav Jagić in his 1864 treatise Naš pravopis. The outcome and influence of this conflict on the state of orthography in Croatia will also be discussed.