Knowra Serbian language Serbian language Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Serbia and also in neighboring countries. It is written in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts and has standardized regional varieties.
Serbo-Croatian : A pluricentric South Slavic language standard historically encompassing Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. Serbian is one standardized variety within this closely related linguistic continuum.
Old Church Slavonic : The earliest recorded Slavic literary language, based on a South Slavic dialect and used in medieval Christian texts. Its religious and literary tradition helped establish writing among South Slavic peoples.
Croatian language : A standardized South Slavic language used primarily in Croatia and written in the Latin alphabet. It shares a Štokavian foundation with Serbian but follows a separate standard and script convention.
Digraphia : The use of two writing systems for the same language within a speech community. Serbian is a prominent case, with both Cyrillic and Latin used in everyday writing.
Štokavian : A South Slavic dialect group that forms the basis of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin standards. The Serbian standard is based primarily on Štokavian speech.
Vuk Karadžić : A nineteenth-century Serbian philologist and language reformer who shaped the modern standard around vernacular speech. His reforms established key principles of modern Serbian spelling and literary language.
Bosnian language : A standardized South Slavic language used primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina, generally written in Latin script. Its closely related grammar and vocabulary coexist with a distinct standard identity.
Ekavian and Ijekavian pronunciation : Two Serbian pronunciation standards distinguished chiefly by how they continue the historical vowel jat. The variants mark regional patterns within standardized Serbian.
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet : The 30-letter Cyrillic script used to write standard Serbian, with a distinct letter for each phoneme. It is Serbian’s official script and closely matches the language’s sound system.
Serbian language reform : The nineteenth-century movement that reformed Serbian spelling and literary language around spoken forms. It produced the phonemic orthography and standard associated with modern Serbian.
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