Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Not Available
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
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Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
bok
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
hvala
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
kako si
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
laku noć
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
dobar dan
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
dobro jutro
Please
Молим (Molim)
molim
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Oprostite
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Doviđenja
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Volim te
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Serbia
Croatia
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Hrvatski
German Name
Serbisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Origin
11th Century
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
croa1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Serbian and Croatian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Serbian and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Croatian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Croatian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Serbian and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.