Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Japan
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Palau
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Молим (Molim)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Hakata
Where They Speak
Serbia
Fukuoka
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
kansai
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
日本語
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Not Available
French Name
serbe
japonais
German Name
Serbisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Japanese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Serbian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Japanese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Japanese Difficulty
The Serbian vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.