Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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.
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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/ |
One good example of Serbian Cyrillic alphabet.
Specific Russian (top) and proper Serbian/Macedonian (bottom) letters.
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.
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