Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Hawaii
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
您好
Thank You
Hvala
谢谢
How Are You?
Kako si?
你好吗？
Good Night
Laku noc
晚安
Good Evening
Dobro veće
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
下午好
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
早上好
Please
molim vas
请
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾
Bye
Zbogom
再见
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你
Excuse Me
Oprostite
原谅我
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Croatia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
660,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Croatia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
bosniaque
cantonais
German Name
Bosnisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Han Chinese
Origin
19th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
241
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
bs
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bos
yue
ISO 639 3
bos
No data available
ISO 639 6
boss
yue
Glottocode
bosn1245
cant1236
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-