Serbian
standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs
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Summary
Serbian is a pluricentric language variant[1]. Serbian draws 13,391 Wikipedia views per month (pluricentric language variant category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Serbia[3], Montenegro[4], Bosnia and Herzegovina[5], Croatia[6], Kosovo[7], North Macedonia[8]
- Instance of: standard variety[9], language[10]
- Subclass of: Eastern Herzegovinian[11], Serbo-Croatian[12]
- Writing system: Serbian Cyrillic alphabet[13], Gaj's Latin alphabet[14]
- Commons category: Serbian language[15]
- Wikimedia language code: sr[16]
- Said to be the same as: Serbo-Croatian[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Serbian language[18]
- Language regulatory body: Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language[19]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9,000,000[20]
- Native label: српски језик[21], srpski jezik[22], српски[23]
- Short name: сербский[24], сербська[25], сръбски[26], сэрбская[27], сербаг[28]
- Indigenous to: Montenegro[29], Gazi Baba Municipality[30], Kisela Voda Municipality[31], Kriva Palanka Municipality[32], Kumanovo Municipality[33], Serbia[34]
- Female form of label: la langue serbe[35]
- Studied by: Serbian studies[36]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[37], genitive case[38], dative case[39], accusative case[40], vocative case[41], instrumental case[42], locative case[43]
- Has tense: present tense[44], perfect tense[45], aorist[46], pluperfect[47], imperfect[48], future tense[49], future perfect[50]
- Has grammatical mood: imperative[51], conditional[52]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[53]
Why It Matters
Serbian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Serbian is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]