Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2531
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Selam
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Молим (Molim)
i'bakwon
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
aznallehu
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
tschao
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Gondar
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Gondar
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Serbia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Showa
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
8.70 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
12.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
serbe
amharique
German Name
Serbisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Amharas
Origin
11th Century
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Amharic
Language Position
4455
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
amh
ISO 639 2/B
srp
amh
ISO 639 3
srp
amh
ISO 639 6
srp
amh
Glottocode
serb1264
amha1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional