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Bosnian
Bosnian

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

University of Sarajevo
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Serbian and Croatian
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Zdravo
Habari

Thank You

Hvala
Asante

How Are You?

Kako si?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Laku noc
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Dobro veće
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Dobar dan
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
Habari za asubuhi

Please

molim vas
tafadhali

Sorry

Oprostite
pole

Bye

Zbogom
bye

I Love You

Volim te
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Oprostite
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Shtokavian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Croatia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

660,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kajkavian
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Croatia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.50 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Bosanski Jezik
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

bosniaque
swahili

German Name

Bosnisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Bosniaks
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

19th Century
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Bosnian
Swahili

Language Position

2421
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bosnian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

bs
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bos
swa

ISO 639 2/B

bos
swa

ISO 639 3

bos
swa

ISO 639 6

boss
swa

Glottocode

bosn1245
swah1254

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Bosnian and Swahili Alphabets

Bosnian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bosnian and Swahili. In Bosnian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Bosnian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bosnian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bosnian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Bosnian and Swahili Speaking population

Bosnian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Bosnian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and Swahili Language Codes

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