Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
sorry
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
serbe
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
11th Century
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic