Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Молим (Molim)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Olonets
Where They Speak
Serbia
Olonets
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Русский
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Russki
German Name
Serbisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Origin
11th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Serbian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Russian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Russian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.