1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
German and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
dankjewel
3.3 How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
goedemorgen
3.8 Please
Молим (Molim)
alsjeblieft
3.9 Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
sorry
3.10 Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
vaarwel
3.11 I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
pardon
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Serbia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
8.70 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.70 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Nederlands
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
serbe
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology