Language code: sr

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sr

The table below provides technical details for the Serbian language, designated by the sr code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

sr

Name

Official

Serbian

Native

Српски

Family
South Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Ekavian (Štokavian)Ijekavian (Štokavian)Torlakian (Prizren–Timok)
Related languages
BosnianCroatianMontenegrinMacedonian
Key facts
Uses both Cyrillic and Latin scriptsModern literary standard shaped by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in the 19th centuryEmploys a four-way pitch accent with phonemic vowel lengthShares over 90 % mutual intelligibility with Croatian and BosnianPart of the South Slavic branch of the Indo-European family
Sample phrase

Здраво, како си?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-5, ISO 8859-16, Windows 1250, Windows 1251, MacCyrillic, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Serbian belongs to the Indo-European language family, falling specifically within the Slavic and South Slavic subgroups. It is the official language of Serbia and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside Bosnian and Croatian. It also enjoys co-official status in Montenegro. Serbian employs two scripts, Cyrillic and Latin, both of which are equally recognized. While government and official institutions in Serbia generally prefer the Cyrillic script, the Latin script is widely used as well, especially in tech-related sectors and in regions with ethnically diverse populations. It is estimated that Serbian has around 10 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Serbian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

sr-Cyrl Serbian (Cyrillic)

sr-Cyrl-BA Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

sr-Cyrl-ME Serbian (Cyrillic, Montenegro)

sr-Cyrl-RS Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)

sr-Latn Serbian (Latin)

sr-Latn-BA Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

sr-Latn-ME Serbian (Latin, Montenegro)

sr-Latn-RS Serbian (Latin, Serbia)

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