Countries
Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Serbia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
Rank: 51 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %
Rank: 54 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million
Rank: 50 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
French Name
serbe
German Name
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Serbs
History
Origin
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Branch
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Language Position
44
Rank: 41 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
ISO 639 2/B
srp
ISO 639 3
srp
ISO 639 6
srp
Glottocode
serb1264
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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