Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3057
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2550
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
Sawubona
Thank You
Hvala
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Kako si?
unjani
Good Night
Laku noc
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Dobro veće
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
okuhle ekuseni
Please
molim vas
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Oprostite
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Zbogom
bye
I Love You
Volim te
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Croatia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
660,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Croatia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
bosniaque
zoulou
German Name
Bosnisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Zulu people
Origin
19th Century
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2487
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
zul
ISO 639 2/B
bos
zul
ISO 639 3
bos
zul
ISO 639 6
boss
zul
Glottocode
bosn1245
zulu1248
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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