Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3032
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Sveiki
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Ačiū
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Labanakt
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Laba diena
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Labas rytas
Please
Молим (Molim)
Prašom
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
atsiprašau
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Ate
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Serbia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Curonian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
serbe
lituanien
German Name
Serbisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Lithuanians
Origin
11th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Lithuanian
Language Position
4444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
lit
ISO 639 2/B
srp
lit
ISO 639 3
srp
lit
ISO 639 6
srp
lit
Glottocode
serb1264
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic