Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (Serbian: српска/Вукова ћирилица, srpska/Vukova ćirilica, literally "Serbian/Vuk's Cyrillic alphabet") is the official and traditional alphabet used to write the Serbian language.
The alphabet
The following table gives the upper and lower letters forms of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, along with the Serbian Latin equivalent and the IPA value for each letter:
| Cyrillic Alphabet Latin alphabet IPA |
А а A /a/ |
Б б B /b/ |
В в V /ʋ/ |
Г г G /g/ |
Д д D /d/ |
Ђ ђ Đ /dʑ/ |
Е е E /ɛ/ |
Ж ж Ž /ʒ/ |
З з Z /z/ |
И и I /i/ |
| Cyrillic Alphabet Latin alphabet IPA |
Ј ј J /j/ |
К к K /k/ |
Л л L /l/ |
Љ љ Lj /ʎ/ |
М м M /m/ |
Н н N /n/ |
Њ њ Nj /ɲ/ |
О о O /ɔ/ |
П п P /p/ |
Р р R /r/ |
| Cyrillic Alphabet Latin alphabet IPA |
С с S /s/ |
Т т T /t/ |
Ћ ћ Ć /tɕ/ |
У у U /u/ |
Ф ф F /f/ |
Х х H /x/ |
Ц ц C /ts/ |
Ч ч Č /tʃ/ |
Џ џ Dž /dʒ/ |
Ш ш Š /ʃ/ |
Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet Media
Capital letters of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Example of typical antique style in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, attributed to Saint Cyril and Methodius, 14th century
Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet Script by Pierre Simon Fournier, 16th century
Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić
Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet Script by Claude Duret, 16th century
Vukov rječnik
Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet Script before and after reform by Montenegro church public school, Cetinje, 19th century
Serbian Cyrillic, from Comparative orthography of European languages. Source: Vuk Stefanović Karadžić "Srpske narodne pjesme" (Serbian folk poems), Vienna, 1841
References
- Omniglot - Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
- Serbian Alphabet Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- "Serbian Cyrillic". Archived from the original on 23 August 2007.