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Bosnian vs Russian


Russian vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Serbian and Croatian  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Zdravo  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
Hvala  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Kako si?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
Laku noc  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
Dobro veće  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
molim vas  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
Zbogom  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Volim te  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Oprostite  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
11
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
28
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Novgorod  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
Not Available  
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Russki  

French Name
bosniaque  
russe  

German Name
Bosnisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Bosniaks  
Russians  

History

Origin
19th Century  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Bosnian  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
Not Available  
7  
7

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bs  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
bos  
rus  

ISO 639 3
bos  
rus  

ISO 639 6
boss  
Not Available  

Glottocode
bosn1245  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Bosnian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Russian language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Russian Language History.

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

Bosnian vs Russian Difficulty

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

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