Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
National Language
Russia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Sarajevo
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Zdravo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Hvala
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kako si?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Laku noc
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Dobar dan
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobro jutro
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
molim vas
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Oprostite
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Zbogom
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Dialect 2
Olonets
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Croatia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Russki
Not Available
French Name
russe
bosniaque
German Name
Russisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Bosniaks
Origin
1000 AD
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Bosnian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
boss
Glottocode
russ1263
bosn1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Russian 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 Russian and Bosnian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Bosnian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Bosnian word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Bosnian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Bosnian Difficulty
The Russian vs Bosnian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Bosnian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Bosnian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Bosnian time required is 44 weeks.