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Serbian language

Serbian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the national official language and literary standard of Serbia, one of the official languages in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, and a recognized minority language in numerous countries.

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Ethnicity
Serbs
Glottolog
serb1264
ISO 639-1
sr
ISO 639-2
srp
ISO 639-3
srp
Language family
Balto-SlavicSlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian · SlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian · South SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian · Serbo-CroatianSerbian · Serbian

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Serbian language

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Edges156
Triples408
Avg. degree1.99
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Serbian language

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related to Books · 152
Serbian language → Albijanić, Aleksandar, Archived, Arts, August, Balkan Studies, Balkans, Beginners, Belgrade, Belgrade-Budapest, Blackwell Publishing, Boulder, Brepols, Bubalo, Bugarski, Celia, Centuries, Century, Cluj-Napoca, Colloquial Serbian
related to Journals · 98
Serbian language → Albijanić, Albin, Aleksandar, Alexander, Annemarie, April, Archived, BALC1041007S, Balcanica, Belić, Bernhard, Bishop, Century Vojvodina Sources, Church Slavonic Language, Clement, COBISS, Communist Romania, Die Welt, Early, East
related to Modern period · 31
Serbian language → Austrian, Because, Bosnia, But Karadžić, Church Slavonic, Cyrillic, Daničić, Eastern Herzegovinian, For, He, Herzegovina, Herzegovinian, In, Jan Hus's Czech, Johann Christoph Adelung's, Karadžić, Karadžić's, Novi Sad, Orthodox, Serbian
related to Geographic distribution · 28
Serbian language → Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Countries, Croatia, Czech Republic, Europe, France, Furthermore, Germany, Hungary, In Montenegro, It, Kosovo, Montenegrins, North Macedonia, Romania, Serb, Serbia
related to history · 24
Serbian language → As, BC, Belarus, Bug, Cyril, Dialectal, Dnieper, Great Moravia, Linguistic, Methodius, Poland, Pripyat, Proto-Balto-Slavic, Proto-Slavic, Serbian, Slavic, Slavs, South Slavic, The, Thessaloniki
related to Early modern period · 20
Serbian language → Church Slavic, During, Eastern Orthodox Serbs, Habsburg Monarchy, In, Karlovci, Moscowian, Nikon's, Peć, Russian, Russian Church Slavonic, Russian-Slavonic, Serbian, Serbian Church Slavic, Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate, Serbian Patriarchate, Serbs, Slavo-Serbian, Slavonic-Serbian, The
related to Dictionaries · 16
Serbian language → Arabic-Persian-Greek-Serbian, Arts, Croatian, Dictionary, German, Rječnik, Sciences, Serbian, Serbian Dictionary, Serbo-Croatian, Srpski, Standard, The, There, Vuk Karadžić's, Yugoslav Academy
related to Writing system · 10
Serbian language → Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Latin, Ljudevit Gaj, Serb, Serbian, Serbian Cyrillic, The Latin, Vuk Karadžić
Recognised minority language in · 7
Serbian language → Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro[c], North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia
Language family · 5
Serbian language → Balto-SlavicSlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian, Serbian, Serbo-CroatianSerbian, SlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian, South SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian

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serbian language slavic cyrillic serbo-croatian latin literary serbs also used standard languages century church serbia script pdf one slavonic official

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Serbian languageEthnicitySerbs1.00infobox
Serbian languageGlottologserb12641.00infobox
Serbian languageISO 639-1sr1.00infobox
Serbian languageISO 639-2srp1.00infobox
Serbian languageISO 639-3srp1.00infobox
Serbian languageLanguage familyBalto-SlavicSlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian1.00infobox
Serbian languageLanguage familySlavicSouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian1.00infobox
Serbian languageLanguage familySouth SlavicSerbo-CroatianSerbian1.00infobox
Serbian languageLanguage familySerbo-CroatianSerbian1.00infobox
Serbian languageLanguage familySerbian1.00infobox
Serbian languageLinguaspherepart of 53-AAA-g1.00infobox
Serbian languageNative speakers8.2 million (2022–23)1.00infobox
Serbian languageNative toSerbia Bosnia-Herzegovina Montenegro Kosovo Croatia1.00infobox
Serbian languageOfficial language inSerbia Bosnia-Herzegovina[a] Kosovo[b]1.00infobox
Serbian languagePronunciation[sr̩̂pskiː]1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inMontenegro[c]1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inCroatia1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inNorth Macedonia1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inRomania1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inHungary1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inCzech Republic1.00infobox
Serbian languageRecognised minority language inSlovakia1.00infobox
Serbian languageRegionSoutheastern Europe1.00infobox
Serbian languageRegulated byBoard for Standardization of the Serbian Language1.00infobox
Serbian languageWriting systemCyrillic (Serbian Cyrillic)1.00infobox
Serbian languageWriting systemLatin (Gaj's Latin)1.00infobox
Serbian languageWriting systemBraille (Yugoslav Braille)1.00infobox

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