Countries
Japan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Japan
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Kana
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Hakata
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Serbia
Dialect 3
Kansai
Torlakian
Where They Speak
kansai
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
日本語
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Montenegrin
French Name
japonais
serbe
German Name
Japanisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Serbs
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Serbian
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1643
serb1264
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available
Japanese 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 Japanese and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Serbian language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Serbian Difficulty
The Japanese vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.