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Serbian vs Nepali


Nepali vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Nepal  

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  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Hindi  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
कृपया  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
35
790,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
34
17,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Baitadeli  

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

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
17,000,000.00  
26

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
serbe  
népalais  

German Name
Serbisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
[neˈpali]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
11th Century  
19 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Nepali  

Language Position
44  
99+
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
nep  

ISO 639 3
srp  
npi  

ISO 639 6
srp  
nep  

Glottocode
serb1264  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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Serbian and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Nepali language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. 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 Nepali Language History.

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Serbian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Nepali language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Serbian vs Nepali Difficulty

The Serbian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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