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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

Regulated By

University of Sarajevo

Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.

Similar To

Serbian and Croatian

Derived From

Not Available

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Not Available

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Zdravo

Thank You

Hvala

How Are You?

Kako si?

Good Night

Laku noc

Good Evening

Dobro veće

Good Afternoon

Dobar dan

Good Morning

Dobro jutro

Please

molim vas

Sorry

Oprostite

Bye

Zbogom

I Love You

Volim te

Excuse Me

Oprostite

Dialects

Dialect 1

Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 11 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian

Where They Speak

Croatia

How Many People Speak

660,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall)
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Kajkavian

Where They Speak

Croatia

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.50 million
Rank: 76 (Overall)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

Not Available
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million
Rank: 74 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى

Alternative Names

Not Available

French Name

bosniaque

German Name

Bosnisch

Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]

Ethnicity

Bosniaks

History

Origin

19th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Bosnian

Language Position

Not Available
1 120
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Signed Forms

Not Available

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bs

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bos

ISO 639 2/B

bos

ISO 639 3

bos

ISO 639 6

boss

Glottocode

bosn1245

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Bosnian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Bosnian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Bosnian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Bosnian. Bosnian phonology gives Bosnian vowels and Bosnian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 25 consonants in Bosnian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Bosnian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Bosnian language is given in detail in this section.

All Bosnian countries

Want to explore all Bosnian countries? About Bosnian language serves you with all Bosnian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Bosnian as official language are called as Bosnian countries.

  • Countries that use Bosnian as their National Language are: Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Bosnian as second language are: Bosnian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Bosnian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Bosnian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Bosnian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Bosnian language.Learn Bosnian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Zdravo
  • Thank you: Hvala
  • Good Morning: Dobro jutro
  • Good Evening: Dobro veće
  • Good Afternoon: Dobar dan

All Bosnian Language Codes

Get to know all Bosnian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Bosnian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.