Language comparison
Serbian vs Croatian
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Eastern Herzegovinian Shtokavian. Both are used in: Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Serbian
српски
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- South Slavic
- Western South Slavic
- Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian
- Shtokavski
- New Shtokavian
- Eastern Herzegovinian Shtokavian
- Serbian
- Script
- Cyrillic, Latin
- Hello / thank you
- добар дан / хвала (dobar dan / hvala)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 7.8 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Serbia
- Co-official (2)
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo
- Legally recognised (1)
- Montenegro
- Without status
- a minority language in 4 countries
Croatian
hrvatski
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- South Slavic
- Western South Slavic
- Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian
- Shtokavski
- New Shtokavian
- Eastern Herzegovinian Shtokavian
- Croatian
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- dobar dan / hvala
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 6.8 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Croatia
- Co-official (1)
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Official in a region (2)
- Austria, Serbia
- Legally recognised (1)
- Montenegro
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 4 countries
Where they are spoken
- Serbian 1
- Croatian 3
- both 3
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.