Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Ukraine
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Молим (Molim)
будь ласк
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Podillian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Volynian
Where They Speak
Serbia
Rivne, Volyn
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
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French Name
serbe
ukrainien
German Name
Serbisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Ukrainians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
serb1264
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Serbian and Ukrainian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Serbian and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Ukrainian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Serbian and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.