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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Dutch Language

Derived From

-
Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3032
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2517
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
hallo

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Dankie

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Hoe gaan dit

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
goeie nag

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Goeienaand

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Goeie middag

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
goeie more

Please

Молим (Molim)
asseblief

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
jammer

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Totsiens

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Ek het jou lief

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Verskoon my

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
-

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

Serbia
-

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Namibia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

33
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Afrikaans

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Cape Dutch

French Name

serbe
afrikaans

German Name

Serbisch
Afrikaans

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Afrikaners

History

Origin

11th Century
17th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Standard Afrikaans

Language Position

4423
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
af

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
afr

ISO 639 2/B

srp
afr

ISO 639 3

srp
afr

ISO 639 6

srp
afrs

Glottocode

serb1264
afri1274

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
52-ACB-ba

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic

Serbian and Afrikaans Alphabets

Serbian and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Afrikaans. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Serbian and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Afrikaans languages. The Serbian phonology consist Serbian vowels and Serbian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Serbian greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Serbian and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Serbian and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Serbian and Afrikaans Speaking population

Serbian and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Serbian and Afrikaans on Serbian vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Afrikaans Language Codes

Serbian and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Serbian and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.