Countries
India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Nepal
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- 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
Hindi
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
कृपया
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Nepal
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Serbia
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Montenegrin
French Name
népalais
serbe
German Name
Nepali
Serbisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Serbs
Origin
19 BC
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Serbian
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
serb1264
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Nepali 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 Nepali and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Serbian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Serbian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.