Serbian
Serbian(Serbian Cyrillic: Српски, Serbian Latin: Srpski, Serbian pronunciation: [ˈsrpskiː]) is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora. Standard Serbian is based on the Shtokavian dialect, like the modern Croatian and Bosnian, with which it is mutually intelligible, and was previously unified with under the standard known as Serbo-Croatian. It counts among the official languages of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and among recognized languages in Croatia, Romania, Republic of Macedonia and Hungary.
Serbian is an example of synchronic digraphia. Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are widely used in Serbia in a large variety of contexts, and most people are literate in both scripts.
Serbian orthography is very consistent: it is an approximation of the principle "one letter per sound". This principle is represented by Adelung's saying, "Write as you speak and read as it is written", the principle used by Vuk Karadžić when reforming the Cyrillic orthography of Serbian in the 19th century.
Spoken in: See below under "Official status" in Central and in immigrant communities in Western Europe, as well as Northern America
Region: Central Europe, Southern Europe
Total speakers: Over 12 Million
Ranking: Around 63
Language family:
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Slavic
South Slavic
Western South Slavic
Serbo-Croatian
Serbian
Official status： Official language in Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro- 64% of the population
Athos, Greece, Croatia (regional), Macedonia (regional), Romania (regional)
Recognized minority language in Hungary
Regulated by: Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1 sr
ISO 639-2 srp
ISO 639-3 srp
