Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
molim vas
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
19th Century
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
abks
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Bosnian and Abkhaz 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 Bosnian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Abkhaz language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Abkhaz 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 Bosnian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.