Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
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French Name
bosniaque
chinois
German Name
Bosnisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
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Origin
19th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
boss
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Glottocode
bosn1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
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.