Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
hallo
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Danke
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
guten Tag
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
guten Morgen
Please
Молим (Molim)
bitte
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Verzeihung
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Tschüs
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Serbia
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Texas German
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Texas
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
serbe
allemand
German Name
Serbisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Origin
11th Century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
serb1264
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Serbian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and German language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs German Difficulty
The Serbian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.