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Serbian vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
4  
11

National Language
Germany  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
9  
1
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
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
Danke  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
bitte  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
Tschüs  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Serbia  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
1,500,000.00  
17

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
Not Available  

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Montenegrin  

French Name
allemand  
serbe  

German Name
Deutsch  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Serbs  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
11th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
9  
9
44  
33

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
srp  

ISO 639 3
deu  
srp  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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German and Serbian Language History

Comparison of German vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of German and Serbian language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Serbian Language History.

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

German vs Serbian Difficulty

The German vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.

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