Serbian language

The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the ?tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). Serbian is used primarily in Serbia and Montenegro, Republika Srpska and by Serbs everywhere.

Alphabets

The following compares ?????? ???????? (Serbian Cyrillic letters) or A????? (Azbuka) with Srpska Latinica (Serbian Latin letters) or Abeceda.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Notes

• The letters Lj, Nj and D? in are represented by two characters in the Latin alphabet. Also, the letter ? is sometimes written as Dj.
• The sort order of the two alphabets is different.

Azubuka: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Abeceda: A B C ? ? D D? ? E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S ? T U V Z ?

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

• Many e-mail and even web documents written in Serbian use basic ASCII, where Serbian Latin letters that use diacritics (? ? ? ?) are replaced with the base, undiacritised forms (Z C C S). The original words are then "recognized" from the context. This is not an official alphabet, and is considered a bad practice, but there are some documents in Serbian that use this simplified alphabet. This is common practice in other languages that use letters with diacritics.