Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Japan
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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.
  
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Fukuoka
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
14
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
9
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Not Available
  
French Name
serbe
  
japonais
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1185
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Japanese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic