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ISO 639-3 · hbshbs
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Serbo-Croatian
srpskohrvatski jezik
Serbo-Croatian is a macrolanguage of the Western South Slavic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro and 1 more country. Wikidata counts 19 m first-language speakers (2022). Wikidata describes it as “South Slavic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
hbs- ISO 639-1
sh- Glottocode
sout1528- Family
- Indo-European
- Centre point
- 44.86, 19.02
- Wikipedia
- 120 language editions
19 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
5countries
4scripts
5levels in the tree
—UNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Serbo-Croatian · srpskohrvatski jezik |
|---|---|
| Also called | BHS, Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian |
| L1 speakers | 19,000,000 (2022) |
| Written in | Gaj's Latin alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic, Latin script |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
Wikidata has no EGIDS or UNESCO rating for Serbo-Croatian yet.
family tree
From Indo-European to Serbo-Croatian
The branches above Serbo-Croatian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
