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Bosnian and Russian


Russian and Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
154,000,000.00  
2

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
154,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million  
30
110.00 million  
7

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  

History

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
24  
22
7  
7

Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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

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Bosnian and Russian Speaking population

Bosnian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Bosnian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and Russian Language Codes

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

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