Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
molim vas
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
buls
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Bosnian and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Bulgarian language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.