1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Molo
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
8.70 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
1.3 Speaking Population
1.4 Native Speakers
8.70 million8.20 million
0.13
873
1.5.2 Second Language Speakers
1.5.4 Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
isiXhosa
1.5.5 Alternative Names
Montenegrin
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
1.5.6 French Name
1.5.7 German Name
1.6 Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Not Available
1.7 Ethnicity
2 History
2.1 Origin
11th Century
16th Century
2.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
2.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
isiXhosa
2.3.3 Language Position
2.6.2 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
2.7 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available