Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Indonesia
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Not Available
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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Halo
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Sugeng énjing
Please
Молим (Molim)
Not Available
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Serbia
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Arekan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
serbe
javanais
German Name
Serbisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Serbs
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
11th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Javanese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
java1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Serbian and Javanese 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 Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Javanese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Javanese Difficulty
The Serbian vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.