Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2529
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Silaw
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Sipas
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Bayanit bash
Please
Молим (Molim)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bibûre
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Serbia
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
12.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
serbe
kurde
German Name
Serbisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Kurds
Origin
11th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Kurdish
Language Position
4414
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sr
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
kur
ISO 639 2/B
srp
kur
ISO 639 3
srp
kur
ISO 639 6
srp
kur
Glottocode
serb1264
kurd1259
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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