Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3032
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2517
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
hallo
Thank You
Hvala
Dankie
How Are You?
Kako si?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Laku noc
goeie nag
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
goeie more
Please
molim vas
asseblief
Sorry
Oprostite
jammer
Bye
Zbogom
Totsiens
I Love You
Volim te
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
660,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Croatia
Namibia
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Cape Dutch
French Name
bosniaque
afrikaans
German Name
Bosnisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Afrikaners
Origin
19th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
afr
ISO 639 2/B
bos
afr
ISO 639 3
bos
afr
ISO 639 6
boss
afrs
Glottocode
bosn1245
afri1274
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic