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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
sr
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.