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Serbian medical interpreters

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80,360 people in the U.S. speak Serbian at home.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Serbian doesn’t rank among the 15 most reported non-English languages in any state’s ACS table, so state-level counts aren’t published. The national figure covers all states. Opalite covers Serbian regardless, since the languages hardest to staff are the ones that need coverage most.

22,050

speakers of Serbian speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

27%

of Serbian speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

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What to know when interpreting Serbian

Every language has grammar that an interpreter must handle correctly. These are the Serbian features that the fewest other languages in the world share, according to the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).

Indo-European · Slavic · Eurasia

2.9%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Serbian can put its question word at the start or the end of a sentence, so an interpreter must listen through to the last word before knowing whether it was a question.

WALS 92A · Position of Polar Question Particles · In either of two positions

4.1%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Serbian commands like “come” or “go” can take a completely different word from the everyday verb, so an interpreter must know both forms to relay an instruction correctly.

WALS 79B · Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives · A regular and a suppletive form alternate

4.6%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Serbian nouns change their endings across five cases to show their role in the sentence, so an interpreter reads the ending, not the word order, to tell who did what to whom.

WALS 49A · Number of Cases · 5 cases

How Serbian is structured

Word ordersubject, object and verb
SVO
Adpositionsprepositions or postpositions
Prepositions
Adjectivebefore or after the noun
Adjective-Noun
Demonstrativethis and that, before or after
Demonstrative-Noun
Numeralnumber before or after the noun
Numeral-Noun
Genitivepossessor before or after
No dominant order
Relative clausebefore or after the noun
Not coded
Morphologyprefixing or suffixing
Strongly suffixing
Tonewhether pitch changes meaning
Not coded
Casesnumber of noun cases
5 cases
Gendersnumber of noun genders
Not coded
Classifierscounting words for nouns
Not coded

Source: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. WALS Online, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Serbian entry: wals.info SCR. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as WALS codes them; each links to its datapoint. The clinical readings are Opalite’s own inferences and are not part of WALS.

FAQs about Serbian medical interpreters

Opalite uses the same underlying interpretation techniques for Serbian as it does for Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese. In Opalite’s published validation study, those three languages were evaluated in clinical conversations, with over 90% fewer errors than certified medical interpreters across the conversations studied.

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