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The principal language of the Orthodox records is Serbo-Croatian written in Serbian Church Slavonic script, derived from old Cyrillic script.  The Catholic records are in Latin until 1848, then in Hungarian.  Both are written in Roman script.  Records of the Ottoman period are written in Ottoman Turkish (Turkish in Arabic script).<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro),” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1989-1998.</ref>
For word lists and help researching in Serbian records, see:
*[[Serbo-Croatian Genealogical Word List]]
*[[Latin Genealogical Word List]]
*[[Hungarian Genealogical Word List]]
==Serbian Alphabet==
[[Image:Serbian and Croatian Alphabets.jpg|thumb|center|750px|Serbian and Croatian Alphabets]]
== References ==
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[[Category:Serbia]]
[[Category:Serbia]]

Revision as of 09:23, 15 December 2022

Serbia Wiki Topics
Prizren Serbia.jpg
Beginning Research
Record Types
Serbia Background
Local Research Resources

Description[edit | edit source]

Serbian is the one national language in Serbia and is native to 88% of the population.

Other languages spoken in Serbia include: [1]

Word List(s)[edit | edit source]

Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Alphabet

Serbian and Croatian Alphabets

Pronunciation

Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

Dictionaries

  • Awde, Nicholas, and Duška Radosavljević. Serbian dictionary & phrasebook : Serbian-English, English-Serbian. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Kazanegra, Vesna. English-Serbian, Serbian-English dictionary. London: STAR Foreign Language Books, 2011. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries

Language Aids

  • Vrabec, Zeljko. Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian : an essential grammar. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Alexander, Ronelle, and Ellen Elias-Bursać. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a textbook : with exercises and basic grammar. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Serbian Grammar - Wikipedia

Additional Resources[edit | edit source]

  • Ribnikar, Vladislava, and David A. Norris. Complete Serbian. Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Available at: WorldCat.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Serbia," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Serbia, accessed 1 Dec 2022.


The principal language of the Orthodox records is Serbo-Croatian written in Serbian Church Slavonic script, derived from old Cyrillic script. The Catholic records are in Latin until 1848, then in Hungarian. Both are written in Roman script. Records of the Ottoman period are written in Ottoman Turkish (Turkish in Arabic script).[1]

For word lists and help researching in Serbian records, see:

Serbian Alphabet[edit | edit source]

Serbian and Croatian Alphabets

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro),” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1989-1998.