Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2543
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Molo
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Unjani
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Molo
Please
Молим (Molim)
Ndicela
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Thembu
Where They Speak
Serbia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
8.70 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
12.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
serbe
xhosa
German Name
Serbisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Serbs
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
11th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
isiXhosa
Language Position
4421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
xho
ISO 639 2/B
srp
xho
ISO 639 3
srp
xho
ISO 639 6
srp
xho
Glottocode
serb1264
xhos1239
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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