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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

49
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Austria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

-
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2525
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
bok

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
hvala

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
kako si

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
laku noć

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
dobar dan

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
dobro jutro

Please

Молим (Molim)
molim

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Oprostite

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Doviđenja

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Volim te

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Serbia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Hrvatski

French Name

serbe
croate

German Name

Serbisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Croats

History

Origin

11th Century
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

4423
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

srp
hrv

ISO 639 3

srp
hrv

ISO 639 6

srp
hrv

Glottocode

serb1264
croa1245

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Serbian and Croatian Alphabets

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

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

Serbian and Croatian Speaking population

Serbian and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Serbian and Croatian on Serbian vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Croatian Language Codes

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