Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2522
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Молим (Molim)
будь ласк
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Podillian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Volynian
Where They Speak
Serbia
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.46 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
serbe
ukrainien
German Name
Serbisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Ukrainians
Origin
11th Century
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
4426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
srp
ukr
ISO 639 3
srp
ukr
ISO 639 6
srp
ukr
Glottocode
serb1264
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic