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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  
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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  
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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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