Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
pole
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
bye
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
serbe
  
swahili
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
11th Century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Swahili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available