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Bosnian vs Chinese


Chinese vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
China, Taiwan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Indonesia, Malaysia  

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Serbian and Croatian  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
24  
19

How Many Consonants
25  
15
23  
13

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
Zdravo  
您好 (Nín hǎo)  

Thank You
Hvala  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  

How Are You?
Kako si?  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  

Good Night
Laku noc  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  

Good Evening
Dobro veće  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
早安 (Zǎo ān)  

Please
molim vas  
请 (Qǐng)  

Sorry
Oprostite  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  

Bye
Zbogom  
再见 (Zàijiàn)  

I Love You
Volim te  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  

Excuse Me
Oprostite  
劳驾 (Láojià)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Mandarin  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
11
960,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Wu  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
China, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
28
80,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Yue  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
Not Available  
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
873.00 million  
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
178.00 million  
3

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى  
中文 (zhōngwén)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Not Available  

French Name
bosniaque  
chinois  

German Name
Bosnisch  
Chinesisch  

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Bosniaks  
Han  

History

Origin
19th Century  
1250 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Bosnian  
Standard Chinese  

Language Position
Not Available  
1  
1

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bs  
zh  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos  
zho  

ISO 639 2/B
bos  
chi  

ISO 639 3
bos  
zho  

ISO 639 6
boss  
Not Available  

Glottocode
bosn1245  
sini1245  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
79-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Bosnian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Chinese language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bosnian and Chinese Language History.

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Bosnian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Chinese language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bosnian vs Chinese Difficulty

The Bosnian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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