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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

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.
  • Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
  • Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.

Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Czech Language

Derived From

-
Czech-Slovak Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3046
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2538
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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
Ahoj

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Ďakujem vám

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Ako sa máte?

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Dobrú noc

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Dobrý večer

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Dobré popoludnie

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Dobré ráno

Please

Молим (Molim)
Prosím

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Pardón!

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Dovidenia

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Ľúbim Ťa

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Prepáčte!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Eastern Slovak

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Central Slovak

Where They Speak

Serbia
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Western Slovak

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.005,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million5.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million5.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
slovenčina

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Slovakian, Slovencina

French Name

serbe
slovaque

German Name

Serbisch
Slowakisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈsləʊvæk]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Slovaks

History

Origin

11th Century
6th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Slovak

Language Position

4427
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Slovak Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
sk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
slk

ISO 639 2/B

srp
slo

ISO 639 3

srp
slk

ISO 639 6

srp
slk

Glottocode

serb1264
slov1269

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
53-AAA-db

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Serbian and Slovak Alphabets

Serbian and Slovak Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Slovak. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Slovak Alphabets there are 46 letters. To learn Serbian and Slovak languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Slovak are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Serbian and Slovak Speaking population

Serbian and Slovak speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Slovak languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Slovak Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovak language is 0.14 %. 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 Slovak on Serbian vs Slovak where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Slovak Language Codes

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