Serbian

српски језик

Serbian is a language, spoken in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and 2 more countries. Wikidata counts about 9 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs”.

1 · NationalSerbian Cyrillic alphabet Gaj's Latin alphabet +19 m

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: srp
ISO 639-1: sr
Glottocode: serb1264
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 1 National
Centre point: 44.00, 21.00
Wikipedia: 175 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

6countries

2scripts

—levels in the tree

1EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Serbian · српски језик
Also called	Serbian language, Srpski
All speakers	9,000,000
Written in	Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Gaj's Latin alphabet
Official in	Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
Grammatical cases	7 listed in Wikidata
Grammatical genders	4 listed in Wikidata

Vitality

EGIDS 1 National1

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Serbian is spoken — Map: Fobos92 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Kosovoofficial · 3 languages in the index Bosnia and Herzegovinaofficial · 8 languages in the index Serbiaofficial · 18 languages in the index Montenegro9 languages in the index Croatia17 languages in the index North Macedonia11 languages in the index

Also spoken in Kosovo

sqiAlbanianunclassified · 6.2 mSafe mkdMacedonianIndo-European · 2 m1 · National