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Chinese and Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
5   
10

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30   
12
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
24   
19

How Many Consonants
25   
15
23   
13

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
Молим (Molim)   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Serbia   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Torlakian   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00   
17
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
8.70 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Montenegrin   
Not Available   

French Name
serbe   
chinois   

German Name
Serbisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Serbs   
Han   

History

Origin
11th Century   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
44   
33
1   
1

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
sr   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
srp   
chi   

ISO 639 3
srp   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
serb1264   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

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All Serbian and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Serbian and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Serbian and Chinese Speaking population

Serbian and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Serbian and Chinese on Serbian vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Chinese Language Codes

Serbian and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Serbian and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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