Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Please
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Bye
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
anglais
  
serbe
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Serbs
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available