Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
Czech Language
Derived From
Not Available
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Hvala
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Kako si?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Laku noc
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Dobro veće
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Dobré ráno
I Love You
Volim te
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Croatia
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Croatia
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Not Available
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
bosniaque
slovaque
German Name
Bosnisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
Slovaks
Origin
19th Century
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Bosnian
Slovak
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
boss
Not Available
Glottocode
bosn1245
slov1269
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-db
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Bosnian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Slovak language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.