Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the
Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in
Serbia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro,
Croatia, and by
Serbs in the
Serbian diaspora. The former standard is known as
Serbo-Croatian, now split into Serbian,
Croatian and
Bosnian standards.Two
alphabets are used to write the Serbian language: a
variation on the
Cyrillic alphabet, devised by
Vuk Karadžić, and a
variation on the
Latin alphabet, devised by
Ljudevit Gaj. The characters of the two alphabets map to each other one-to-one.Serbian orthography is very consistent: approximation of the principle "one letter per sound". This principle is represented by
Adelung's saying, "Write as you speak and read as it is written", the principle used by
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić when reforming the Cyrillic orthography of Serbian in the 19th century.
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