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Serbian

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Swahili



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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
Habari

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Asante

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Habari gani?

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Молим (Molim)
tafadhali

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
pole

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
bye

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Serbia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

serbe
swahili

German Name

Serbisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

11th Century
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Swahili

Language Position

4421
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
swa

ISO 639 2/B

srp
swa

ISO 639 3

srp
swa

ISO 639 6

srp
swa

Glottocode

serb1264
swah1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Serbian and Swahili Alphabets

Serbian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Swahili. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Serbian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Serbian and Swahili Speaking population

Serbian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Serbian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Swahili Language Codes

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