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Serbian and Nepali


Nepali and Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Nepal  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Hindi  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
कृपया  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
35
790,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
34
17,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
17,000,000.00  
26

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
serbe  
népalais  

German Name
Serbisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
[neˈpali]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
11th Century  
19 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Nepali  

Language Position
44  
99+
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
nep  

ISO 639 3
srp  
npi  

ISO 639 6
srp  
nep  

Glottocode
serb1264  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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

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Serbian and Nepali Speaking population

Serbian and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Serbian vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Nepali Language Codes

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

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