Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Molo
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
South Africa
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
20.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
serbe
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
11th Century
  
16th 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
  
isiXhosa
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Serbian and Xhosa Speaking population
Serbian and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Serbian vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Serbian and Xhosa Language Codes
Serbian and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Serbian and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.