Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Not Available
  
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Not Available
  
French Name
serbe
  
kurde
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Kurds
  
Origin
11th Century
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available