Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
- 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
German and English Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
serbe
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Serbs
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Dutch 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 Dutch and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Serbian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Serbian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.