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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

74
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2630
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

925
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Danke
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

gute Nacht
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

guten Abend
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

bitte
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Verzeihung
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

Tschüs
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Germany
Serbia

How Many People Speak

820,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Texas
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

6,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

283
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Montenegrin

French Name

allemand
serbe

German Name

Deutsch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Germans
Serbs

History

Origin

6th Century AD
11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Serbian

Language Position

944
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
srp

ISO 639 2/B

ger
srp

ISO 639 3

deu
srp

ISO 639 6

deus
srp

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
serb1264

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Serbian Alphabets

German and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Serbian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn German and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Serbian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of German and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Serbian Speaking population

German and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Serbian on German vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Serbian Language Codes

German and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.