Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Kako si?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Laku noc
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Dobro veće
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
صبح به خیر
I Love You
Volim te
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Oprostite
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
فارسی
Alternative Names
Not Available
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
bosniaque
persan
German Name
Bosnisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Persian people
Origin
19th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Persian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
boss
Not Available
Glottocode
bosn1245
fars1254
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Bosnian and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Persian language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Persian Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.