Russian and Serbian

Russian

Serbian

Serbian and Russian

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

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

Not Available

Alphabets

Alphabets in

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Alphabets

Phonology

How Many Vowels

How Many Consonants

Scripts

Cyrillic

Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

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

30,000.00

99+

Not Available

Dialect 2

Olonets

Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Olonets

Serbia

Dialect 3

Novgorod

Torlakian

Where They Speak

Novgorod

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

Not Available

1,500,000.00

Total No. Of Dialects

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million

8.70 million

99+

Speaking Population

2.33 %

Not Available

Native Speakers

166.00 million

8.70 million

99+

Second Language Speakers

110.00 million

Not Available

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

Not Available

Branch

Eastern

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian

Standard Serbian

Language Position

Signed Forms

Signed Russian

Not Available

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus

srp

ISO 639 2/B

rus

srp

ISO 639 3

rus

srp

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

russ1263

serb1264

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea

53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Not Available

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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.

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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 Not Available. 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.