Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Not Available
  
French Name
serbe
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
11th Century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic