Serbian language

Serbian
српски
Pronunciation	[sr̩̂pskiː]
Native to	Serbia and neighboring regions
Native speakers	12 million[1][2]
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western[3] Serbian
Writing system	Cyrillic (Serbian alphabet) Latin (Gaj's alphabet) Serbian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Serbia
Recognised minority language in	Croatia  Hungary[4]  Montenegro  Slovakia[5]  Czech Republic[6]  North Macedonia[7]  Romania  Greece
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sr
ISO 639-2	srp
ISO 639-3	srp
Linguasphere	part of 53-AAA-g
Countries where Serbian is an official language.   Countries where it is recognized as a minority language.
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Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken by Serbs, primarily in Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and some parts of neighboring countries. It is also spoken by many Serbs in diaspora, mainly in Central European countries, North America and Australia. The language is European and south Slavic. This language got a complete makeover in the mid-1800s by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić; when it was modernized from the times of Middle Ages, when "Old Serbian" was still spoken. Total number of speakers worldwide today is estimated to be more than 12 million.

1. ↑ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Srpski jezik govori 12 miliona ljudi". www.rts.rs.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Including, as of 2006, 6.62 million in Serbia sans Kosovo (88% of the population), 1.49 million in Bosnia (37.1%), 400,000 in Montenegro (60%), 133,000 in Kosovo, 45,000 in Croatia, and 36,000 in North Macedonia. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed.
3. ↑ "Browse by Language Family". Ethnologue.
4. ↑ "Ec.Europa.eu" (PDF).
5. ↑ "B92.net". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
6. ↑ "Minority Rights Group International : Czech Republic : Czech Republic Overview". Minorityrights.org. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
7. ↑ "Minority Rights Group International : Macedonia : Macedonia Overview". Minorityrights.org. Retrieved 2012-10-24.