Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
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
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Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Wu
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
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Montenegrin
French Name
chinois
serbe
German Name
Chinesisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Origin
1250 BC
11th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Serbian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
serb1264
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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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.