Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
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Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Suomi
  
French Name
serbe
  
finnois
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic