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Serbian and Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
4  
11

National Language
Russia  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
  • 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
25  
15

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Cyrillic, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Serbia  

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,500,000.00  
17

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
Not Available  

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
Not Available  

Native Name
Русский  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Montenegrin  

French Name
russe  
serbe  

German Name
Russisch  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Serbs  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
11th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Not Available  

Branch
Eastern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
7  
7
44  
33

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
srp  

ISO 639 3
rus  
srp  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
russ1263  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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All Russian and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Russian and Serbian Speaking population

Russian and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Serbian on Russian vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Serbian Language Codes

Russian and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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