Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, Taiwan
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
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2523
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
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Молим (Molim)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Wu
Where They Speak
Serbia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Yue
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
12.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
serbe
chinois
German Name
Serbisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Han
Origin
11th Century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
zho
ISO 639 2/B
srp
chi
ISO 639 3
srp
zho
ISO 639 6
srp
zho
Glottocode
serb1264
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating