Serbian

Indo-European (Slavic)12 million totalCyrillic/Latin

RegionSerbia/Bosnia

FamilyIndo-European (Slavic)

Speakers12 million total

ScriptCyrillic/Latin

TypeAlphabetic

About Serbian

Unique in Europe for equal official use of two scripts. The Cyrillic and Latin alphabets match letter for letter. Fully mutually intelligible with Croatian and Bosnian. Preserves pitch accent from ancient Slavic. Tesla grew up speaking it.

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