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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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Serbian is a standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a Slavic language (Indo-European), of the South Slavic subgroup. Other standardized forms of Serbo-Croatian are Bosnian , Croatian , and Montenegrin .
- c. 12 million (2009)
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.
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.
General answer? Moderately. Proto-Slavic evolved into what linguists call Common Slavic which functioned as a single unit possibly as late as the 9th century CE. Generally, there is a great degree of mutual intelligibility within the three broad groupings of Slavic languages: West. Czech-Slovak (Czech, Slovak)
Serbian at a glance. Native name: српски / srpski [sr̩̂pskiː] Language family: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, South Slavic, Western, Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, Neo-Shtokavian, Eastern Herzegovinian. Number of speakers: c. 9-10 million.
Before front vowels resulting from ancient diphthongs, palatalized k’ changed to a ts sound, written as c (e.g., Old Church Slavonic cěna ‘price,’ Serbian and Croatian cijèna, Russian cena, cognate to Lithuanian káina ), and g’ changed to a dz sound, which later changed to z (Old Church Slavonic [ d] zelo ‘very,’ Old Czech zielo, Belarusian dial...
Serbian is a member of the Slavic branch of Indo-European languages. Other Slavic languages include Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. Serbian is a part of the South Slavic sub-group of Slavic. Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Slovene are also South Slavic languages.
