Countries
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
South Africa
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
- 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.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Sawubona
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
unjani
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Ngiyacela
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Southeastern Serbia
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Serbia
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
isiZulu
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Montenegrin
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Serbisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Serbs
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
Branch
Beatu
Not Available
Early Forms
urban Zulu
No early forms
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Serbian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
zulu1248
serb1264
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Zulu and Serbian 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 Zulu and Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Serbian language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Serbian Difficulty
The Zulu vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu Alphabets and Serbian 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 Zulu and Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.