Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2536
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Hvala
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kako si?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Laku noc
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
molim vas
कृपया
Sorry
Oprostite
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Zbogom
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Volim te
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Croatia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
660,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Croatia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
bosniaque
népalais
German Name
Bosnisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
19th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Nepali
Language Position
2459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bs
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
nep
ISO 639 2/B
bos
nep
ISO 639 3
bos
npi
ISO 639 6
boss
nep
Glottocode
bosn1245
nepa1254
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative