×

Serbian
Serbian




ADD
Compare

Serbian Language

Add ⊕

1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

1.7 Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Bosnian and Croatian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)

3.2 Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

3.3 How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)

3.4 Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

3.5 Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)

3.7 Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

3.8 Please

Молим (Molim)

3.9 Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

3.10 Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)

3.11 I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)

3.12 Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Serbia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Torlakian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

8.70 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

8.70 million
Rank: 50 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Montenegrin

5.3.4 French Name

serbe

5.3.5 German Name

Serbisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Serbs

6 History

6.1 Origin

11th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Serbian

6.3.3 Language Position

44
Rank: 33 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

sr

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

srp

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

srp

7.3 ISO 639 3

srp

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

serb1264

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-g

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Serbian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Serbian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Serbian language states that it was put to use in 11th Century. The history of Serbian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Serbian Language History. Serbian has no early forms. Standard Serbian is the standard form of Serbian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Serbian Language.

Serbian population

Serbian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Serbian language. Serbian language is spoken by 8.70 million people in the world. Most of the Serbian population lies in the Serbian Speaking Countries. Serbian language is spoken as first language by 8.70 million people and no total count of people speaking Serbian as second language. Get to know Serbian speaking population in detail.

Serbian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Serbian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Serbian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Cyrillic, Latin script is used by Serbian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Serbian language

Check out all the information about Serbian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Serbian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Serbian Speaking Countries, Serbian speaking continents and Serbian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Serbian countries knowing common Serbian Greetings will help you in communicating with Serbian people.