serbian language

Serbian
српски / srpski
Pronunciation	[sr̩̂pskiː]
Native to	Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and neighboring regions
Native speakers	8.7 million declared Serbian speakers in the former Yugoslavia (2006) and 0.5–1.5 million abroad
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western South Slavic Serbo-Croatian (Shtokavian) Serbian
Writing system	Cyrillic (Serbian alphabet) Latin (Gaj's alphabet) Yugoslav Braille
Official status
Official language in	Serbia  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Kosovo
Recognised minority language in	Croatia  Hungary  Montenegro  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Macedonia  Romania
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sr
ISO 639-2	srp
ISO 639-3	srp
Glottolog	serb1264
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 (Serbian Cyrillic: , Gaj's Latin: srpski, [sr̩̂pskiː]) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official language of Serbia and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, it is a recognized minority language in Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

Standard Serbian is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian (more specifically on Šumadija-Vojvodina and Eastern Herzegovinian dialects), which is also the basis of Standard Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. The other dialect spoken by Serbs is Torlakian in southeastern Serbia, which is transitional to Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Serbian is practically the only European standard language with complete synchronic digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets; speakers read the two scripts equally well. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was devised in 1814 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, who created the alphabet on phonemic principles. The Latin alphabet was designed by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1830.