Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
University of Sarajevo
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Serbian and Croatian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Zdravo
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Kako si?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Laku noc
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Dobro veće
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
Palun
  
molim vas
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Zbogom
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
11
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Kajkavian
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
3.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Not Available
  
French Name
estonien
  
bosniaque
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Bosnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Bosniaks
  
Origin
13th century
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Bosnian
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
bs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
bos
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
bos
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
bos
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
boss
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
bosn1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian and Bosnian 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 Estonian and Bosnian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Bosnian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Bosnian word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Bosnian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Bosnian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Bosnian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Bosnian 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 Estonian and Bosnian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Bosnian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Bosnian time required is 44 weeks.