About Serbian

Serbian is primarily spoken in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, with communities in Croatia and across the world. It traces its roots back through the Slavic languages to the migration of the Slavic peoples in the 6th and 7th centuries. Serbian is unique among Slavic languages for its official use of both Cyrillic and Latin scripts, although Cyrillic is the more traditional one.

With around 12 million speakers, Serbian is part of the South Slavic language group, closely related to Croatian and Bosnian. An interesting fact about Serbian is its phonetic spelling, a principle encapsulated by Vuk Karadžić’s reform motto, 'Write as you speak and read as it is written', which contributes to its straightforward orthography.