Language

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian is a macrolanguage in the Indo-European family spoken in Serbia.

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via Serbian (Russia) and 2 other member languages

Scripture in Serbo-Croatian

A complete Bible is reported in 3 member languages of Serbo-Croatian, including Serbian (Russia).

From the Every Language research atlas and its sources. “No known Scripture” means none is recorded in those sources, not that none exists.

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Where Serbo-Croatian is spoken

  • Serbia

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About Serbo-Croatian

Language family
Indo-European
ISO 639-3 code
hbs
Glottocode
sout1528
Also known as
Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian

Languages grouped as Serbo-Croatian 4

ISO 639-3 treats Serbo-Croatian as a macrolanguage: closely related languages that are sometimes counted as one. Scripture is recorded for each member language, so Serbo-Croatian shows the best status among them.

Dialects and varieties 25

Each variety shows Scripture recorded for that exact variety; it may differ from Serbo-Croatian as a whole.

  • BosnianNo known Scripture
  • Bosnian StandardNo known Scripture
  • BunjevacNo known Scripture
  • Burgenland CroatianNo known Scripture
  • ChakavskiNo known Scripture
  • CroatianNo known Scripture
  • Croatian StandardNo known Scripture
  • Eastern Bosnian ShtokavianNo known Scripture
  • Eastern Herzegovinian ShtokavianNo known Scripture
  • KarashevskiNo known Scripture
  • Kosovo-ResavaNo known Scripture
  • Montenegrin StandardNo known Scripture
  • New ShtokavianNo known Scripture
  • Nuclear ChakavianNo known Scripture
  • Old ShtokavianNo known Scripture
  • Prizren-South MoravaNo known Scripture
  • Serbian StandardNo known Scripture
  • ShtokavskiNo known Scripture
  • Slavonian ShtokavianNo known Scripture
  • Smederevo-VršacNo known Scripture
  • Šumadija-VojvodinaNo known Scripture
  • SzerbNo known Scripture
  • TimokNo known Scripture
  • UžicanNo known Scripture
  • Zeta-RaškaNo known Scripture

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Sources

  • DIALECTS source registryDIALECTS research collection · Each original source retains its own terms
  • GlottologHammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath & Bank, Glottolog 5.3 · CC BY 4.0
  • Every Language mapEvery Language and its attributed source providers · Owner-authorized publication; upstream terms retained

Atlas data as of 2026-09-05. Joshua Project data is used with permission for noncommercial ministry research and education. Glottolog data: CC BY 4.0. Macrolanguage membership: ISO 639-3 code tables, iso639-3.sil.org.