Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
serbe
  
allemand
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Germans
  
Origin
11th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic