Serbian
Alternative name(s): srpski (sr), Servisch (nl), srbšcina (sl), serbiska (sv)
Language family: Indo-European
Language Group: Slavic
Geographical use: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Montenegro
Information:
Serbian can be written in both the Latin and Cyrillic
alphabets, the latter now being the official administrative format. In
the Cyrillic alphabet, there is one symbol for each sound, that is,
there are as many letters as sounds (30), making it completely
phonetic. This system was introduced by Vuk Stefanovich Karadzich, who followed the rule: write as you speak, and read as you write . The Latin alphabet is also phonetic, but some double letters are pronounced as one sound.
The
spelling of Serbian does not present any difficulties, because there is
one symbol for each sound. Serbian is thus one of the easiest language
to learn to write. The order of the letters differs in the Cyrillic and
the Latin alphabets.
