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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

47
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

259
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

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
hallo

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Danke

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
guten Tag

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
guten Morgen

Please

Молим (Molim)
bitte

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Verzeihung

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Tschüs

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Serbia
Germany

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Texas

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

serbe
allemand

German Name

Serbisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Germans

History

Origin

11th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

449
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
deu

ISO 639 2/B

srp
ger

ISO 639 3

srp
deu

ISO 639 6

srp
deus

Glottocode

serb1264
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Serbian and German Alphabets

Serbian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and German. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Serbian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Serbian and German Speaking population

Serbian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Serbian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and German Language Codes

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