Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2539
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
dobry dzień
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Dabranač
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Dobraj ranicy
Please
Молим (Molim)
Kali laska
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Vybačajcie
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
da pabačennia
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Serbia
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
serbe
biélorusse
German Name
Serbisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Belarusians
Origin
11th Century
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Belarusian
Language Position
4479
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
bel
ISO 639 2/B
srp
bel
ISO 639 3
srp
bel
ISO 639 6
srp
bel
Glottocode
serb1264
bela1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-