Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
آسف
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
serbe
  
arabe
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Arabs
  
Origin
11th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic