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Malaysian vs Serbian


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Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
4  
11

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

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
24  
14
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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
30,000.00  
40
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

Total No. Of Dialects
24  
20
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million  
10
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %  
14
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  

History

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  

Language Position
54  
39
44  
33

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Malaysian and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Malaysian vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Malaysian and Serbian language. History of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 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 Malaysian and Serbian Language History.

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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.

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