Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Zdravo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Hvala
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kako si?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Laku noc
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
molim vas
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Oprostite
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Zbogom
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Volim te
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Croatia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Croatia
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Русский
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
French Name
bosniaque
russe
German Name
Bosnisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Russians
Origin
19th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
boss
Not Available
Glottocode
bosn1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Bosnian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Russian language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Russian Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.