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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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

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
Pan South African Language Board

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.
  • The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Xhosa Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3057
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2550
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
Sawubona

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
unjani

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
okuhle ekuseni

Please

Молим (Molim)
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
bye

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Serbia
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Ndebele

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

serbe
zoulou

German Name

Serbisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Zulu people

History

Origin

11th Century
19

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Deep Zulu

Language Position

4487
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
zul

ISO 639 2/B

srp
zul

ISO 639 3

srp
zul

ISO 639 6

srp
zul

Glottocode

serb1264
zulu1248

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Serbian and Zulu Alphabets

Serbian and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Zulu. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Serbian and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Zulu 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 Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Serbian and Zulu Speaking population

Serbian and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. 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 Zulu on Serbian vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Zulu Language Codes

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