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Serbian vs Czech


Czech vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Czech Republic, European Union  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Czech Republic  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Institute of the Czech Language  

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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
42  
22

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
32  
21

How Many Consonants
25  
15
32  
22

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
ahoj  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
děkuji  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
Jak se máš?  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
dobrou noc  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
dobrý večer  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
dobré odpoledne  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
dobré ráno  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
prosím  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
litovat  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
sbohem  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
Miluji tě  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
promiňte  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Chod  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Chodsko, Bohemia  

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Lach  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia  

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Moravian  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
17
108,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
11.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.15 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
11.00 million  
99+

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
čeština / český jazyk  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Bohemian, Cestina  

French Name
serbe  
tchèque  

German Name
Serbisch  
Tschechisch  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Czechs  

History

Origin
11th Century  
9th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Standard Czech  

Language Position
44  
33
73  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Czech Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
cs  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
ces  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
cze  

ISO 639 3
srp  
ces  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
serb1264  
czec1258  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
53-AAA-da  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Serbian and Czech Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Czech language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Czech language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Serbian and Czech Language History.

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Serbian and Czech 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 Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Czech language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Serbian vs Czech Difficulty

The Serbian vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Czech 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 Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.

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