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Language code: srp

Technical information about ISO 639 language code srp

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The table below provides technical details for the Serbian language, designated by the srp code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

srp

Name

Official

Serbian

Native

Српски

Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Šumadija–VojvodinaEast HerzegovinianKosovo–ResavaPrizren–Timok (Torlakian)
Related languages
BosnianCroatianMontenegrinMacedonianBulgarian
Key facts
Uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets with a nearly perfect one-to-one sound–letter correspondenceEmploys four phonemic pitch accents that can alter word meaningModern standard was shaped by 19th-century reformer Vuk Karadžić under the motto “Write as you speak”Nouns, adjectives and pronouns inflect for seven grammatical cases and two numbersIt forms a dialect continuum and high mutual intelligibility with Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin.
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

The Serbian language, identified by the code srp, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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