Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
désolé
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Français
  
French Name
serbe
  
français
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
11th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic