Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Serbian and Croatian
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
molim vas
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
pole
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
bye
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
swahili
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
19th Century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Bosnian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Swahili language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.