Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
szia
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
bocsi
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Austria
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Székely Land
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Magyar
  
French Name
serbe
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic