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Serbian vs Dzongkha


Dzongkha vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Bhutan  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Bhutan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
India  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  
India  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Dzongkha Development Commission  

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.
  
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Sikkimese Language  

Derived From
-  
Tibetan Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
95  
39

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
25  
15
30  
20

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
38 weeks  
14

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
Kuzoozangpo La  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
Kaadinchhey La  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
lek shom ay zim  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
བསྐྱར་མ་  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
Tsip maza  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
Log Jay Gay  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
Nga cheu lu ga  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
Tsip maza  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Laya  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
35
1,100.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Lunana  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
34
700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Adap  

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

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
130,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
0.64 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.07 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
0.17 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
0.47 million  
99+

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar  

French Name
serbe  
dzongkha  

German Name
Serbisch  
Dzongkha  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Ngalop people  

History

Origin
11th Century  
17th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Dzongkha  

Language Position
44  
99+
31  
29

Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  
Signed Dzongkha  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
dz  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 3
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 6
srp  
dzo  

Glottocode
serb1264  
nucl1307  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Serbian and Dzongkha Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Dzongkha language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Dzongkha language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of Dzongkha language states that this language originated in 17th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Serbian and Dzongkha Language History.

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Serbian and Dzongkha Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Serbian and Dzongkha greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Dzongkha language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Dzongkha word for "Thank You" is Kaadinchhey La. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Dzongkha Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Serbian vs Dzongkha Difficulty

The Serbian vs Dzongkha difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Dzongkha Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Serbian and Dzongkha are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Dzongkha, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Dzongkha time required is 38 weeks.

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