Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2525
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
bok
Thank You
Hvala
hvala
How Are You?
Kako si?
kako si
Good Night
Laku noc
laku noć
Good Evening
Dobro veće
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
dobar dan
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
dobro jutro
Please
molim vas
molim
Sorry
Oprostite
Oprostite
Bye
Zbogom
Doviđenja
I Love You
Volim te
Volim te
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
660,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
679
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Hrvatski
French Name
bosniaque
croate
German Name
Bosnisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Croats
Origin
19th Century
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
bos
hrv
ISO 639 3
bos
hrv
ISO 639 6
boss
hrv
Glottocode
bosn1245
croa1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic