Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
molim
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
serbe
  
croate
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Croats
  
Origin
11th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Serbian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic