Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
serbe
  
birman
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating