Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
National Language
China, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
University of Sarajevo
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
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Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Zdravo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kako si?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Laku noc
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Dobar dan
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dobro jutro
Please
请 (Qǐng)
molim vas
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Oprostite
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Volim te
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Croatia
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Croatia
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
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French Name
chinois
bosniaque
German Name
Chinesisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
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[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Origin
1250 BC
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Bosnian
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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boss
Glottocode
sini1245
bosn1245
Linguasphere
79-AAA
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Bosnian 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 Chinese and Bosnian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Bosnian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Bosnian word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Bosnian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Bosnian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Bosnian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Bosnian 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 Chinese and Bosnian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Bosnian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Bosnian time required is 44 weeks.