Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
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 in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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