Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2517
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Hvala
e dupe
How Are You?
Kako si?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Laku noc
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Dobro veće
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
e kaasan
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
e kaaro
Please
molim vas
Jowo
Sorry
Oprostite
binu
Bye
Zbogom
bye
I Love You
Volim te
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Oprostite
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Ede
Where They Speak
Croatia
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
660,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Croatia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
bosniaque
yoruba
German Name
Bosnisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Yoruba people
Origin
19th Century
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Yorùbá
Language Position
2449
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
yor
ISO 639 2/B
bos
yor
ISO 639 3
bos
yor
ISO 639 6
boss
yor
Glottocode
bosn1245
yoru1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating