Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
sila
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
maaf
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Not Available
  
French Name
serbe
  
malais
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
11th Century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
stan1306
  
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
  
Agglutinative
  
Serbian and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Malaysian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.