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Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
7  
8

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

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

Alphabets
30  
12
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
9  
1

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
17
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
128.00 million  
5

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]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Germans  

History

Origin
11th Century  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
44  
33
9  
9

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
ger  

ISO 639 3
srp  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
serb1264  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Serbian and German Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and German language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. 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 German Language History.

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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.

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