Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Hawaii
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
谢谢
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
晚安
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
下午好
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
早上好
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
遗憾
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
再见
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Serbia
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
serbe
Not Available
German Name
Serbisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Serbs
Not Available
Origin
11th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
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Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
sr
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
srp
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
srp
Not Available
ISO 639 3
srp
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
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Serbian and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Serbian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Cantonese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Serbian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Serbian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.