Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2523
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
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Hvala
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kako si?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Laku noc
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
molim vas
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Zbogom
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Wu
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
660,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Yue
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
bosniaque
chinois
German Name
Bosnisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Han
Origin
19th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
241
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
zho
ISO 639 2/B
bos
chi
ISO 639 3
bos
zho
ISO 639 6
boss
zho
Glottocode
bosn1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating