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 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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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!
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million5.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
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
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
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