Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3031
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2526
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Молим (Molim)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
жал (žal)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Debar
Where They Speak
Serbia
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
328
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
serbe
macédonien
German Name
Serbisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Macedonians
Origin
11th Century
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Macedonian
Language Position
4445
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
srp
mac
ISO 639 3
srp
mkd
ISO 639 6
srp
mkd
Glottocode
serb1264
mace1250
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic