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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

Interesting Facts

  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  • 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

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2125
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
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

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

30,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Olonets
Serbia

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

133
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Russki
Montenegrin

French Name

russe
serbe

German Name

Russisch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Russians
Serbs

History

Origin

1000 AD
11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
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Branch

Eastern
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Standard Serbian

Language Position

744
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
srp

ISO 639 2/B

rus
srp

ISO 639 3

rus
srp

ISO 639 6

rus
srp

Glottocode

russ1263
serb1264

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Serbian Alphabets

Russian and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Serbian. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Russian and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Serbian languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian 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 Russian and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Serbian Speaking population

Russian and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % 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 Russian and Serbian on Russian vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Serbian Language Codes

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