Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
India, Nepal
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Молим (Molim)
कृपया
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Doteli
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Serbia
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
serbe
népalais
German Name
Serbisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Serbs
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
11th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Nepali
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
nepa1254
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Serbian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Nepali language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Serbian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.
