Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3024
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2517
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Hvala
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Kako si?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Laku noc
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
molim vas
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Oprostite
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Zbogom
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Volim te
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Greece
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Griko
Where They Speak
Croatia
Italy
How Many People Speak
660,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Croatia
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
625
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
bosniaque
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Bosnisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
19th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Modern Greek
Language Position
2474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
ell
ISO 639 2/B
bos
gre
ISO 639 3
bos
ell
ISO 639 6
boss
ells
Glottocode
bosn1245
gree1276
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic