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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

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.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Serbia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 51 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %
Rank: 54 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million
Rank: 50 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Montenegrin

French Name

serbe

German Name

Serbisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Serbs

History

Origin

11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian

Language Position

44
Rank: 41 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp

ISO 639 2/B

srp

ISO 639 3

srp

ISO 639 6

srp

Glottocode

serb1264

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Serbian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Serbian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Serbian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Serbian. Serbian phonology gives Serbian vowels and Serbian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 25 consonants in Serbian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Serbian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Serbian language is given in detail in this section.

All Serbian countries

Want to explore all Serbian countries? About Serbian language serves you with all Serbian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Serbian as official language are called as Serbian countries.

  • Countries that use Serbian as their National Language are: Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Serbian as second language are: Serbian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Serbian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Serbian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Serbian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Serbian language.Learn Serbian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Здраво (Zdravo)
  • Thank you: Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  • Good Morning: Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  • Good Evening: Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  • Good Afternoon: Добар дан (Dobar dan)

All Serbian Language Codes

Get to know all Serbian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Serbian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.