Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Israel
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Israel
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
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.
  
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Israel
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Israel, Palestine
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
serbe
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic