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| Serbian Cyrillic alphabet Српска ћирилица, Српско писмо Srpska ćirilica, Srpsko pismo | |
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 Serbian Cyrillic alphabet | |
| Script type | |
Time period | 9th century – present |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Official script | Serbia Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina Greece (Mount Athos, Hilandar) |
| Languages | Serbian Bosnian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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Child systems | Macedonian alphabet (partly) Montenegrin Cyrillic (partly) |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
| subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF) | |
| South Slavic languages and dialects |
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The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (Serbian: Српска ћирилица, Srpska ćirilica, IPA: [sr̩̂pskaː t͡ɕirǐlitsa]), also known as the Serbian script[2][3][4] (Српско писмо, Srpsko pismo, IPA: [sr̩̂psko pǐːsmo]), is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, which originated in medieval Serbia. In the 19th century, the script was reformed by the Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić, and its present form is also referred to as Vukovica (Вуковица). It is one of the two alphabets used to write modern standard Serbian, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet.
Reformed Serbian based its alphabet on the previous 18th century Slavonic-Serbian script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters that represent iotated vowels, introducing ⟨J⟩ from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology. During the same period, linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted the Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters.
The updated Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted in the Principality of Serbia in 1868, and was in exclusive use in the country up to the interwar period. Both alphabets were official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Due to the shared cultural area, Gaj's Latin alphabet saw a gradual adoption in the Socialist Republic of Serbia since, and both scripts are used to write modern standard Serbian. In Serbia, Cyrillic is seen as being more traditional, and has the official status (designated in the constitution as the "official script", compared to Latin's status of "script in official use" designated by a lower-level act, for national minorities). It is also an official script in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, along with Gaj's Latin alphabet.
- ^ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.
- ^ Sremac, Danielle S. (1999). War of words: Washington tackles the Yugoslav conflict. Westport, Conn: Praeger. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-275-96609-6.
[...] Serbian script, now became only Latin - a reminder to local Serbs of a World War II fascist [...]
- ^ The Indian Journal of Politics, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University. Aligarh Muslim University. Department of Political Science. 2000.
[...] who uses serbian script [...]
- ^ Exporters' Encyclopaedia. 1967. p. 528.
[...] Serbian script is the Cyrillic (similar to the Russian script). The French and German languages are spoken and used in foreign business correspondence throughout Yugoslavia. Many Yugoslavs, especially in maritime provinces, are [...]
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