Serbian medical interpreters
Real-time Serbian medical interpretation for healthcare teams, on phones, tablets, and computers.
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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Real-time AI medical interpretation in 150+ languages and dialects, connecting providers and patients in seconds.
- Works on the devices care teams already carry: phones, tablets, computers, and telehealth platforms
- Integrates with all EHRs
- Built for HIPAA-compliant healthcare
- SOC 2 Type II attested security controls
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.
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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