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Bosnian

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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Laos

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Laos, Northeastern Thailand

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

University of Sarajevo
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Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  • There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
  • The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.

Similar To

Serbian and Croatian
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3053
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

528
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2527
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Thai and Lao Braille

Writing Direction

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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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Greetings

Hello

Zdravo
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)

Thank You

Hvala
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)

How Are You?

Kako si?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)

Good Night

Laku noc
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)

Good Evening

Dobro veće
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

Dobar dan
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)

Please

molim vas
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)

Sorry

Oprostite
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)

Bye

Zbogom
Sôhk dii der

I Love You

Volim te
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

Oprostite
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Shtokavian
Vientiane Lao

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Northern Lao

Where They Speak

Croatia
Laos

How Many People Speak

660,000.003,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kajkavian
Central Lao

Where They Speak

Croatia
Laos

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

66
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.50 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.22 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)

Alternative Names

Bosanski Jezik
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao

French Name

bosniaque
lao

German Name

Bosnisch
Laotisch

Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]
pʰáːsǎː láːw

Ethnicity

Bosniaks
Lao people

History

Origin

19th Century
1283 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

-
Tai

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early forms

Standard Forms

Bosnian
Lao

Language Position

2443
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bosnian Sign Language
Lao Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bs
lo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bos
lao

ISO 639 2/B

bos
lao

ISO 639 3

bos
lao

ISO 639 6

boss
lao

Glottocode

bosn1245
laoo1244

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Isolating

Bosnian and Lao Alphabets

Bosnian and Lao Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bosnian and Lao. In Bosnian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Bosnian and Lao languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bosnian and Lao 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 Lao greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bosnian and Lao are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Bosnian and Lao Speaking population

Bosnian and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. 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 Lao on Bosnian vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and Lao Language Codes

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