Talk:Serbian language

Why there is no section regarding “history”?!

In Serbian version of same article there is quite nice section of history. So why english speaking visitors are deprive from this informations? Calimero (talk) 06:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Because the so called old Serbian language is actually Old Slavonic. Serbian language is written around 17-18 century and not before. 2607:FA49:142:1300:A0:53A0:F25B:D782 (talk) 14:08, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

It quotes an article, saying that the listed statistics about the use of Cyrillic and Latin apply to the whole population. while the cited article mentions those same statistics for people between ages of 20 and 29.

Additionally, the last paragraph of the article says that the data was acquired through a telephone survey of 1011 people. Which might be too small of a sample size to give any useful information. --Mikister2012 (talk) 16:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Mikister2012: I don't think it's miscited. The lede states that "poslednje istraživanje koje je pokazalo da 47 odsto stanovnika Srbije piše latinicom, u odnosu na 36 odsto onih koji koriste ćirilicu.", while the sidebar referring to the population 20–29 gives a different piece of data (latinicu koriste čak 47 odsto više nego ćirilicu).
I'm not a statistician, but a sample of 1,011 is actually quite large, and if selected properly, should provide a very accurate picture of the overall distribution. For example, election polls are often conducted on less. See opinion poll#Potential for inaccuracy. No such user (talk) 09:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

You're right, it seems I'm the one who didn't read carefully enough. Also thanks for the link, I wasn't aware that 1k+ is considered a large sample size for polling. Mikister2012 (talk) 12:19, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

The language is also spoken by Montenegrins. At the beginning of the article you must say that it's a standard variety mainly spoken by Serbs and the majority of Montenegrins. Also you must add "majority of Montenegrins" in the "ethnicity" cell.

s variety mainly spoken by Serbs and the majority of Montenegrins. 79.106.124.205 (talk) 14:26, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

The top image must be updated so that Kosovo is removed from Serbophone regions. Kosovo speaks Albanian. Serbian is spoken only by the small 1% minority in the northern tip of the country. All Western countries including all Anglophone countries recognize Kosovo (except Spain because of Catalonia). ~2026-65333-9 (talk) 21:34, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Serbian is an official language of Kosovo. The infobox map caption reads "Countries where Serbian is an official language." It should not be removed. –Vipz (talk) 05:46, 30 January 2026 (UTC)