Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
hallo
Thank You
Hvala
takk
How Are You?
Kako si?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Laku noc
god natt
Good Evening
Dobro veće
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
god morgen
Please
molim vas
Vær så snill
Sorry
Oprostite
unnskyld
Bye
Zbogom
ha det
I Love You
Volim te
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Oprostite
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
660,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Croatia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
619
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Norsk
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Norsk
French Name
bosniaque
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Bosnisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Norwegians
Origin
19th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bs
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
nor
ISO 639 2/B
bos
nor
ISO 639 3
bos
nor
ISO 639 6
boss
nor
Glottocode
bosn1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional