Language · ISO 639-3 srp · sr
Serbian Language српски
Serbian is a language spoken by about 9.0 million people in 7 countries. It is an official language of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Where Serbian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Serbian
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Cyrillic and Latin scripts
About the Serbian language
Serbian (српски) is spoken by about 9.0 million people, which makes it the 137th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bulgarian (9.0 million) and ahead of Twi (9.0 million).
Where is Serbian spoken?
Serbian is used in 7 countries. The largest communities live in Serbia (6.6 million), Montenegro (599,849), Bosnia and Herzegovina (379,867), Canada (89,228) and Türkiye (23,553). More than half of the population speaks it in Serbia and Montenegro — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Serbian: Serbia 99% (6.6 million), Montenegro 100% (599,849), Bosnia and Herzegovina 10% (379,867), Canada 0.2% (89,228), Türkiye <0.1% (23,553) and Romania 0.1% (21,777).
Serbian is an official language in 3 countries: Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Writing system and status
Serbian is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 sr, ISO 639-3 srp.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.