Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2536
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Hvala
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Kako si?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Laku noc
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
molim vas
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Oprostite
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Zbogom
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Volim te
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Croatia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
660,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Croatia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
658
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Balgarski
French Name
bosniaque
bulgare
German Name
Bosnisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Bulgarian people
Origin
19th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2488
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
bul
ISO 639 2/B
bos
bul
ISO 639 3
bos
bul
ISO 639 6
boss
buls
Glottocode
bosn1245
bulg1262
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-