Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
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Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Munda Language
Derived From
-
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2521
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Zdravo
Henda ho
Thank You
Hvala
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Kako si?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Laku noc
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Boge Setak’
Please
molim vas
দয়া করে
Sorry
Oprostite
দুঃখিত
Bye
Zbogom
Hariau
I Love You
Volim te
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Oprostite
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
India
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Not present
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
660,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Not present
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bosanski Jezik
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
bosniaque
santal
German Name
Bosnisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
19th Century
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Santali
Language Position
2441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bs
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bos
sat
ISO 639 2/B
bos
sat
ISO 639 3
bos
sat
ISO 639 6
boss
sat
Glottocode
bosn1245
sant1410
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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