Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2524
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Zdravo
Ħello
Thank You
Hvala
Grazzi
How Are You?
Kako si?
Kif int?
Good Night
Laku noc
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
molim vas
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Oprostite
Skużani!
Bye
Zbogom
Ċaw
I Love You
Volim te
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Qormi
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Malta
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Croatia
Malta
How Many People Speak
660,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Malti
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Malti
French Name
bosniaque
maltais
German Name
Bosnisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Maltese
Origin
19th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Maltese
Language Position
2425
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
bos
mlt
ISO 639 3
bos
mlt
ISO 639 6
boss
mlt
Glottocode
bosn1245
malt1254
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic