Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3047
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2522
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
pranam
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Suprabhaat
Please
Молим (Molim)
kripaya
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
maf karai
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Alavidā
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Serbia
North India
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Khortha
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
serbe
maithili
German Name
Serbisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Maithil
Origin
11th Century
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Maithili
Language Position
4440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
mai
ISO 639 2/B
srp
mai
ISO 639 3
srp
mai
ISO 639 6
srp
mai
Glottocode
serb1264
mait1250
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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