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Bosnian and Finnish


Finnish and Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Serbian and Croatian  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
13  
3

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Zdravo  
Moi  

Thank You
Hvala  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Kako si?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
Laku noc  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Dobro veće  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
molim vas  
haluta  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Zbogom  
Heippa  

I Love You
Volim te  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Oprostite  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million  
30
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik  
Suomi  

French Name
bosniaque  
finnois  

German Name
Bosnisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Bosniaks  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
19th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
-  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
-  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Bosnian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
24  
22
22  
20

Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bs  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
bos  
fin  

ISO 639 3
bos  
fin  

ISO 639 6
boss  
fin  

Glottocode
bosn1245  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Bosnian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Bosnian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Bosnian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bosnian are spoken in different Bosnian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bosnian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bosnian dialects include: Shtokavian, Chakavian. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Bosnian and Finnish Speaking population

Bosnian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bosnian and Finnish on Bosnian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and Finnish Language Codes

Bosnian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bosnian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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