Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
pranam
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
maf karai
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
North India
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
32.00 million
  
35
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
serbe
  
maithili
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Maithil
  
Origin
11th Century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Serbian and Maithili 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 Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Maithili language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Maithili Difficulty
The Serbian vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Maithili 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 Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.