Serbian language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Serbian
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Native to	Serbia and neighboring regions
Native speakers	12 million  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbian
Writing system	Cyrillic (Serbian alphabet) Latin (Gaj's alphabet) Serbian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Serbia
Recognised minority language in	Albania  Slovenia  Bulgaria  Croatia  Hungary  Montenegro  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Macedonia  Romania
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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 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.

Images for kids

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  Miroslavljevo jevanđelje (The Gospel of Miroslav), a manuscript, c. 1186

See also

In Spanish: Idioma serbio para niños