Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Palau
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3099
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2514
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Hvala
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Kako si?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Laku noc
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
molim vas
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Oprostite
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Zbogom
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Volim te
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Croatia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
660,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Croatia
kansai
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
631
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.50 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
日本語
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Nihongo
French Name
bosniaque
japonais
German Name
Bosnisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
19th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Japanese
Language Position
248
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
bos
jpn
ISO 639 3
bos
jpn
ISO 639 6
boss
jpn
Glottocode
bosn1245
nucl1643
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic