Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Молим (Molim)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Wu
Where They Speak
Serbia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
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Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
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French Name
serbe
chinois
German Name
Serbisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
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Origin
11th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
serb1264
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Serbian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Chinese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Serbian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.