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
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
bs
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic