Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Malta
  
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
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
National Council for the Maltese 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.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
molim vas
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Malti
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
maltais
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Maltese
  
Origin
19th Century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Bosnian and Maltese 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 Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Maltese language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Maltese 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 Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.