Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Hawaii
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
您好
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
谢谢
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
晚安
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
下午好
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
早上好
Please
Молим (Molim)
请
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
遗憾
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
再见
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Serbia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
serbe
cantonais
German Name
Serbisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Han Chinese
Origin
11th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sr
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
yue
ISO 639 2/B
srp
yue
ISO 639 3
srp
No data available
ISO 639 6
srp
yue
Glottocode
serb1264
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-