Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
serbe
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
11th Century
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating