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Languages

Description

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

Other languages spoken in Serbia include:

• Hungarian - also see resources at Hungary Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Bosnian - also see resources at Bosnia and Herzegovina Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Romani - also see resources at Romania Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Slovak - also see resources at Slovakia Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Albanian - also see resources at Albania Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Romanian - also see resources at Romania Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Croatian - also see resources at Croatia Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Bulgarian - also see resources at Bulgaria Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Macedonian - also see resources at North Macedonia Languages in FamilySearch Wiki
• Rusyn

Word List(s)

• Taranov, Andrey. Serbian vocabulary for English speakers, 9000 words : English-Serbian. n.p.: T & P Books Publishing, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.
• Taranov, Andrey. Phrasebook Serbian : the most important phrases : phrasebook + 3000-word dictionary. Hong Kong: T&P Books, 2016. Available at: WorldCat.
• Taranov, Andrey. Serbian vocabulary for English speakers - 5000 words. Hong Kong: T & P Books Publishing, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.
• Serbian phrasebook - Wikitravel
• Serbian Vocabulary - MyLanguages.org
• Useful Serbian phrases - Omniglot
• Serbo-Croatian Genealogical Word List

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

• Serbian Cyrillic alphabet - Omniglot
• Serbian Latin alphabet - Omniglot
• Serbian Alphabet - My Languages.org
• Serbian Alphabet - Polyglotclub

Serbian and Croatian Alphabets

Pronunciation

• Serbian pronunciation dictionary - Forvo
• Serbian Pronunciation - My Languages.org
• Serbian Pronunciation - Polyglotclub

Language Aids and Dictionaries

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

• Serbian-English / English-Serbian Dictionary - Recnik
• Krstarica Dictionary - Krstarica
• Serbian dictionary - Lexilogos
• Dictionary English - Serbian - Glosbe

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

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