Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2521
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Hvala
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kako si?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Laku noc
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
molim vas
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Oprostite
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Zbogom
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Volim te
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Croatia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
660,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Croatia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Русский
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Russki
French Name
bosniaque
russe
German Name
Bosnisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Russians
Origin
19th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Russian
Language Position
247
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
rus
ISO 639 2/B
bos
rus
ISO 639 3
bos
rus
ISO 639 6
boss
rus
Glottocode
bosn1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic