Serbie leid

Serbie (Serbie Cyrillic: српски, Serbie Laitin: srpski, pronounced [sr̩̂p.skiː]) is a form o Serbo-Croatie,^[9][10][11] a Sooth Slavic leid, spoken bi Serbs^[12] in Serbie, Bosnie an Herzegovinae, Montenegro, Croatie an neighbourin kintras.^[13]

Serbie
српски / srpski
Pronunciation	[sr̩̂pskiː]
Native tae	Serbie, Bosnie an Herzegovinae, Montenegro, Croatie, an Serb diaspora
Ethnicity	Serbs
Native speakers	c. 8 million in the Balkans (2016)[1] 0.5–1.5 million abroad[2]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic Sooth Slavic Wastren Serbo-Croatie Shtokavian Neo-Shtokavian Eastren Herzegovinian Serbie
Writin seestem	Cyrillic (Serbie alphabet) Latin (Gaj's alphabet) Yugoslav Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Serbie  Bosnie an Herzegovinae (co-official)  Kosovo[a](co-offeecial)
Recognised minority leid in	Croatie  Montenegro  Hungary[3]  Slovakie[4]  Czech Republic[5][6]  North Macedonie[7]  Romanie
Regulatit bi	Buird for Staundartisation o the Serbie Leid
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	sr
ISO 639-2	srp
ISO 639-3	srp
Glottolog	serb1264[8]
Linguasphere	pairt o 53-AAA-g
Kintras whaur Serbie is an offeecial leid.   Kintras whaur it is recognised as a minority leid.
This article contains IPA phonetic seembols. Withoot proper renderin support, ye mey see quaisten merks, boxes, or ither seembols insteid o Unicode chairacters. For an introductory guide on IPA seembols, see Help:IPA.

The main dialect o Serbie, on which the literary an staundart leid is based, is Shtokavie - which is an aa the basis o Staundart Croatie, Bosnie, an Montenegrin.^[14] The ither principal dialect, Torlakian, is disputit as tae whether it's a Serbie dialect, or a transitional dialect atween Bulgarie an Serbie.

Serbie is staundartized aroond Šumadija-Vojvodina an Eastren Herzegovinie subdialects o Shtokavie. Apairt frae Shtokavian, the Torlak dialect, transitional tae Macedonie an Bulgarie, is spoken in sootheast Serbie. Housomeivver, it does no hae a literary tradition an is considered a law-prestige dialect.

Serbie is the anerlie European leid wi active digraphia, uisin baith Cyrillic an Laitin alphabets.^[15] The Serbie Cyrillic alphabet wis devised in 1814 bi Serbie linguist Vuk Karadžić, who creatit the alphabet on phonemic principles. The Laitin alphabet wis designed bi Croatie linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 an is uised bi the ither staundart forms o Serbo-Croatie.