Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
molim vas
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
pole
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
bye
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
swahili
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
19th Century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Bosnian and Swahili Speaking population
Bosnian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bosnian and Swahili on Bosnian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bosnian and Swahili Language Codes
Bosnian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bosnian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.