Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
India
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
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
  
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.
  
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Munda Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Henda ho
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Adi Johar
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Cet’leka menama?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Boge Ninda
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Boge Ayup’
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Boge Setak’
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Not Available
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Mahali
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
6.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
6.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
French Name
serbe
  
santal
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Santali
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
Origin
11th Century
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Santali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
sat
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
sat
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
sat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
sant1410
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available