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Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
4  
11

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

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Netherlands  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
590,000.00  
32
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

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
38
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  

History

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  

Language Position
48  
35
44  
33

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Dutch and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Dutch vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Dutch and Serbian language. History of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500 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 Dutch and Serbian Language History.

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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.

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