Countries
India
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
- 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
Munda Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Henda ho
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Adi Johar
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Boge Ninda
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Not Available
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Not Available
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Not Available
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Mahali
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.30 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
santal
  
serbe
  
German Name
Santali
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
Serbs
  
Origin
20th century
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Santali
  
Standard Serbian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sat
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
sat
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
sat
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sant1410
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available