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Bosnian vs Nepali


Nepali vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Nepal  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo  
Language Academy of Nepal  

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Serbian and Croatian  
Hindi  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Zdravo  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
Hvala  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
Kako si?  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
Laku noc  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Dobro veće  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
molim vas  
कृपया  

Sorry
Oprostite  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
Zbogom  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Volim te  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
Oprostite  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
790,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
17,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
17,000,000.00  
26

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million  
30
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
bosniaque  
népalais  

German Name
Bosnisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]  
[neˈpali]  

Ethnicity
Bosniaks  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
19th Century  
19 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Bosnian  
Nepali  

Language Position
24  
22
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bs  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
bos  
nep  

ISO 639 3
bos  
npi  

ISO 639 6
boss  
nep  

Glottocode
bosn1245  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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Bosnian and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Nepali language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bosnian and Nepali Language History.

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Bosnian and Nepali Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bosnian and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Nepali language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bosnian vs Nepali Difficulty

The Bosnian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bosnian and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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