Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
سلام
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
متشکرم
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
صبح به خیر
Please
Молим (Molim)
لطفا
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
متاسف
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Serbia
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Serbisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Persian people
Origin
11th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Persian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
fars1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Serbian and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Persian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Persian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.