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Bosnian

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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

University of Sarajevo
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Serbian and Croatian
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

259
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Zdravo
hallo

Thank You

Hvala
Danke

How Are You?

Kako si?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Laku noc
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Dobro veće
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Dobar dan
guten Tag

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
guten Morgen

Please

molim vas
bitte

Sorry

Oprostite
Verzeihung

Bye

Zbogom
Tschüs

I Love You

Volim te
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Oprostite
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Shtokavian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Croatia
Germany

How Many People Speak

660,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kajkavian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Croatia
Texas

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

628
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.50 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Bosanski Jezik
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

bosniaque
allemand

German Name

Bosnisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Bosniaks
Germans

History

Origin

19th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Bosnian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

249
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bosnian Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bs
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bos
deu

ISO 639 2/B

bos
ger

ISO 639 3

bos
deu

ISO 639 6

boss
deus

Glottocode

bosn1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Bosnian and German Alphabets

Bosnian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bosnian and German. In Bosnian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Bosnian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bosnian and German languages. The Bosnian phonology consist Bosnian vowels and Bosnian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Bosnian greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bosnian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bosnian and German 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 German dialects. Various dialects of Bosnian and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bosnian are spoken in different Bosnian Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bosnian vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bosnian dialects include: Shtokavian, Chakavian. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bosnian and German Speaking population

Bosnian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Bosnian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and German Language Codes

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