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Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 34

Dialect 2
Chakavian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
660,000.00 69

Dialect 3
Kajkavian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00 23

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million 76

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
3.00 million 74

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million 30

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى

Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik

French Name
bosniaque

German Name
Bosnisch

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]

Ethnicity
Bosniaks

History

Origin
19th Century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Bosnian

Language Position
24 22

Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language

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
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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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.

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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.

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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.

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