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- Most Serbian words are of native Slavic lexical stock, tracing back to the Proto-Slavic language. There are many loanwords from different languages, reflecting cultural interaction throughout history. Notable loanwords were borrowed from Greek, Latin, Italian, Persian, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, English and German.
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Most Serbian words are of native Slavic lexical stock, tracing back to the Proto-Slavic language. There are many loanwords from different languages, reflecting cultural interaction throughout history.
- c. 12 million (2009)
The Western subgroup of South Slavic includes the dialects of Serbian and Croatian, among them those of the Prizren-Timok group, which are close to some North Macedonian and West Bulgarian dialects.
Two Slavic languages, Belarusian and Serbian, are biscriptal, commonly written in either alphabet. East Slavic languages such as Russian have, however, during and after Peter the Great's Europeanization campaign, absorbed many words of Latin, French, German, and Italian origin.
Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and North Macedonia by about 9-10 million people. It is official in Serbia, and is the principal language of the Serbs. Serbian at a glance. Native name: српски / srpski [sr̩̂pskiː]
Serbian and Russian are both Slavic languages. Linguists classify Serbian as a South Slavic language (alongside Bulgarian, Slovene, and a few others). Russian is an East Slavic language (together with Ukrainian and Belarusian) Another similarity between Serbian and Russian is that both languages use the Cyrillic script.
Most Serbian words are of native Slavic lexical stock, tracing back to the Proto-Slavic language. There are many loanwords from different languages, reflecting cultural interaction throughout history.
Useful Serbian phrases. A collection of useful phrases in Serbian, a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia. Jump to phrases. See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder.
