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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3033
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic

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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Молим (Molim)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Olonets

Where They Speak

Serbia
Olonets

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Русский

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Russki

French Name

serbe
russe

German Name

Serbisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Russians

History

Origin

11th Century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Standard Russian

Language Position

447
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
rus

ISO 639 2/B

srp
rus

ISO 639 3

srp
rus

ISO 639 6

srp
rus

Glottocode

serb1264
russ1263

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Serbian and Russian Alphabets

Serbian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Russian. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Serbian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Serbian and Russian Speaking population

Serbian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Serbian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Russian Language Codes

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