Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
bitte
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
allemand
  
serbe
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Serbs
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available