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Serbian vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
4  
11

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
25  
15

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Cyrillic, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Wu  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Serbia  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Yue  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
1,500,000.00  
17

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
Not Available  

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
Not Available  

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Montenegrin  

French Name
chinois  
serbe  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
Han  
Serbs  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
11th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
1  
1
44  
33

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
srp  

ISO 639 3
zho  
srp  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Not Available  

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Chinese and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Serbian language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th 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 Chinese and Serbian Language History.

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Chinese and Serbian 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 Chinese and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Serbian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Serbian Difficulty

The Chinese vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Serbian 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 Chinese and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.

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