Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
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
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Not Available
  
French Name
serbe
  
mongol
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available