Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Dankie
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
goeie nag
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
goeie more
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
asseblief
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
jammer
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Not Available
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Not Available
Southeastern Serbia
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Not Available
Serbia
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Namibia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Montenegrin
French Name
afrikaans
serbe
German Name
Afrikaans
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Serbs
Origin
17th Century
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Serbian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
serb1264
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Not Available
Afrikaans and Serbian 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 Afrikaans and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Serbian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Serbian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Serbian 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 Afrikaans and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.