Countries
South Africa
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
University of Sarajevo
  
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Serbian and Croatian
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Zdravo
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
Kako si?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
Laku noc
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
Dobro veće
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
Dobar dan
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
asseblief
  
molim vas
  
Sorry
jammer
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Zbogom
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
11
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Kajkavian
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
3.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
Not Available
  
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Not Available
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
bosniaque
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Bosnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Bosniaks
  
Origin
17th Century
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Bosnian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
bs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
bos
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
bos
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
bos
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
boss
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
bosn1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Not Available
  
Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Bosnian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Bosnian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Bosnian word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Bosnian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Bosnian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Bosnian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Bosnian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Bosnian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Bosnian time required is 44 weeks.