Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Portugal
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
- 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Olá
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
obrigado
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Como você está?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
boa noite
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
boa Noite
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
bom Dia
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Por Favor
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
pesaroso
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
tchau
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Eu te amo
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
desculpe me
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Brazil
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Portugal
Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Português
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Português
Montenegrin
French Name
portugais
serbe
German Name
Portugiesisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Serbs
Origin
3rd Century
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Serbian
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
port1283
serb1264
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Serbian language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Portuguese vs Serbian Difficulty
The Portuguese vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.