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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Palau

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3099
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2514
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

55
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Молим (Molim)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Hakata

Where They Speak

Serbia
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Kansai

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
kansai

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
日本語

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Nihongo

French Name

serbe
japonais

German Name

Serbisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

11th Century
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Japanese

Language Position

448
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

srp
jpn

ISO 639 3

srp
jpn

ISO 639 6

srp
jpn

Glottocode

serb1264
nucl1643

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Serbian and Japanese Alphabets

Serbian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Japanese. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Serbian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Serbian and Japanese 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 Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Serbian and Japanese Speaking population

Serbian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Serbian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Japanese Language Codes

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