Countries
India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina
National Language
Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
University of Sarajevo
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Hindi
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Zdravo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Hvala
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kako si?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Laku noc
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Dobar dan
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dobro jutro
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Zbogom
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doteli
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Croatia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Not Available
French Name
népalais
bosniaque
German Name
Nepali
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bosniaks
Origin
19 BC
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Bosnian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
boss
Glottocode
nepa1254
bosn1245
Linguasphere
12
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Nepali 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 Nepali and Bosnian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Bosnian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Bosnian word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Bosnian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Bosnian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Bosnian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Bosnian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Bosnian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Bosnian time required is 44 weeks.