Countries
Indonesia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
indonésien
  
serbe
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Serbs
  
Origin
7th Century
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Serbian language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.