Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Palau
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3099
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2514
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Молим (Molim)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Hakata
Where They Speak
Serbia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
日本語
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Nihongo
French Name
serbe
japonais
German Name
Serbisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
11th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Japanese
Language Position
448
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
srp
jpn
ISO 639 3
srp
jpn
ISO 639 6
srp
jpn
Glottocode
serb1264
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic