Bosnian
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Fact corner
- Language: Bosnian
- Alternate names: bosanski jezik
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:bos
- Language family: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
- Number of speakers: 4,000,000
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Bosnian language is a South Slavic language native to the Bosniak people. The language is notably spoken in the areas of Bosnia, the Bosniak-dominated region of Sandžak (in Serbia and Montenegro) and elsewhere. The Serbian, Croatian, and Bosniak languages are all mutually intelligible.
The verb
The main tenses used in Bosnian language are:
- Present tense
- Past tense
- Future tense
- Pluperfect
- Future perfect
- Imperative
- Conditional
Sample verb: imati
Present
| Person | Present Indicative |
| Sg.1 | imam |
| Sg.2 | imaš |
| Sg.3 | ima |
| Pl.1 | imamo |
| Pl.2 | imate |
| Pl.3 | imaju |
(C.f. also the Serbian and Croatian conjugation tables.)
Click verbs to conjugate them in the table above!
References
Learn Bosnian language(approve sites)