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Serbian Language



Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

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
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 35

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak
Serbia

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00 34

Dialect 3
Torlakian

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 51

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million 60

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
8.70 million 50

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million 38

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 41

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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Origin of Serbian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Serbian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Serbian language states that it was put to use in 11th Century. The history of Serbian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Serbian Language History. Serbian has no early forms. Standard Serbian is the standard form of Serbian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Serbian Language.

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Serbian population

Serbian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Serbian language. Serbian language is spoken by 8.70 million people in the world. Most of the Serbian population lies in the Serbian Speaking Countries. Serbian language is spoken as first language by 8.70 million people and as second language by about 12.00 million people. Get to know Serbian speaking population in detail.

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Serbian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Serbian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Serbian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Cyrillic, Latin script is used by Serbian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Serbian language

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