Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Russki
  
French Name
serbe
  
russe
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Russians
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic