Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- 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
Indonesian Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
sila
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
malais
  
serbe
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Serbs
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Serbian language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.