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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

1.7 Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)

3.2 Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

3.3 How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)

3.4 Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

3.5 Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)

3.7 Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

3.8 Please

Молим (Molim)

3.9 Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

3.10 Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)

3.11 I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)

3.12 Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Serbia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Torlakian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

8.70 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

8.70 million
Rank: 50 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Montenegrin

5.3.4 French Name

serbe

5.3.5 German Name

Serbisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Serbs

6 History

6.1 Origin

11th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Serbian

6.3.3 Language Position

44
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

sr

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

srp

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

srp

7.3 ISO 639 3

srp

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

serb1264

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-g

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Serbian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Serbian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Serbian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Serbian. Serbian phonology gives Serbian vowels and Serbian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 25 consonants in Serbian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Serbian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Serbian language is given in detail in this section.

All Serbian countries

Want to explore all Serbian countries? About Serbian language serves you with all Serbian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Serbian as official language are called as Serbian countries.

  • Countries that use Serbian as their National Language are: Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Serbian as second language are: Serbian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Serbian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Serbian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Serbian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Serbian language.Learn Serbian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Здраво (Zdravo)
  • Thank you: Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  • Good Morning: Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  • Good Evening: Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  • Good Afternoon: Добар дан (Dobar dan)

All Serbian Language Codes

Get to know all Serbian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Serbian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.