Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
molim vas
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
آسف
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
arabe
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Arabs
  
Origin
19th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic