Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2520
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
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
hallo
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
takk
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
god natt
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
god morgen
Please
Молим (Molim)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
unnskyld
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
ha det
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Serbia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Norsk
French Name
serbe
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Serbisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Serbs
Norwegians
Origin
11th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
4418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sr
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
nor
ISO 639 2/B
srp
nor
ISO 639 3
srp
nor
ISO 639 6
srp
nor
Glottocode
serb1264
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional