Serbian – National transliteration system
Serbian virtual keyboard
The Serbian virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
The Serbian language (Српски in Cyrillic, Srpski in Latin alphabet) is a South Slavic language from the Indo-European family. Official language in Serbia, it is co-official in Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian and Croatian), and counts about 7 million speakers.
Transliteration system: national
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is the official and traditional alphabet used to write the Serbian language. It is an adaptation of the Cyrillic alphabet for the Serbian language, and was developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. The alphabet was officially adopted in 1868. A corresponding Serbian Latin script is also used to write the language, although it lacks certain phonetic properties, namely the one sound, one letter system.
The transliteration tables for both the ALA-LC romanization system for Serbian (2013) and the BGN/PCGN 2005 Agreement romanization system for Serbian are identical to the national transliteration system ones.
Books
Complete Serbian: A Teach Yourself Guide
by Vladislava Ribnikar, David Norris, editors McGraw-Hill (2011)
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Simplified Grammar of the Serbian Language
by Morfill, William Richard, editors BiblioBazaar (2009)
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Serbian-English/English-Serbian Dictionary & Phrasebook
by Nicholas Awde, Duska Radosavljevic, editors Hippocrene Books (2004)
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Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language
by Thomas F. Magner, editors Pennsylvania State University Press (1995)
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Serbian links
- How to count in Serbian
- Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
- ALA-LC romanization system for Serbian (2013) (.pdf)
- BGN/PCGN 2005 Agreement romanization system for Serbian (.pdf)
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Tamazight, Tigrinya, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.