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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

1.7 Regulated By

University of Sarajevo

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.

1.9 Similar To

Serbian and Croatian

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Zdravo

3.2 Thank You

Hvala

3.3 How Are You?

Kako si?

3.4 Good Night

Laku noc

3.5 Good Evening

Dobro veće

3.6 Good Afternoon

Dobar dan

3.7 Good Morning

Dobro jutro

3.8 Please

molim vas

3.9 Sorry

Oprostite

3.10 Bye

Zbogom

3.11 I Love You

Volim te

3.12 Excuse Me

Oprostite

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Shtokavian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Chakavian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

660,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Kajkavian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

3.50 million
Rank: 76 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

3.00 million
Rank: 74 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Not Available

5.3.4 French Name

bosniaque

5.3.5 German Name

Bosnisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Bosniaks

6 History

6.1 Origin

19th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Bosnian

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

bs

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

bos

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

bos

7.3 ISO 639 3

bos

7.4 ISO 639 6

boss

7.5 Glottocode

bosn1245

7.6 Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Bosnian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Bosnian language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Bosnian language states that it was put to use in 19th Century. The history of Bosnian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Bosnian Language History. Bosnian has no early forms. Bosnian is the standard form of Bosnian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Bosnian Language.

Bosnian population

Bosnian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Bosnian language. Bosnian language is spoken by 3.50 million people in the world. Most of the Bosnian population lies in the Bosnian Speaking Countries. Bosnian language is spoken as first language by 3.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Bosnian as second language. Get to know Bosnian speaking population in detail.

Bosnian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Bosnian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Bosnian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Cyrillic, Latin script is used by Bosnian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Bosnian language

Check out all the information about Bosnian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Bosnian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Bosnian Speaking Countries, Bosnian speaking continents and Bosnian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Bosnian countries knowing common Bosnian Greetings will help you in communicating with Bosnian people.