Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
serbe
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
11th Century
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Slovak
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic