Serbian language

Serbian
Serbian
српски / srpski
Pronunciation	[sr̩̂pskiː]
Native to	Serbia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Montenegro; Kosovo; Croatia
Region	Southeastern Europe
Ethnicity	Serbs
Native speakers	8.2 million (2022–23)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Serbo-Croatian Serbian; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic (Serbian Cyrillic); Latin (Gaj's Latin); Braille (Yugoslav Braille);
Official status
Official language in	Serbia; Bosnia-Herzegovina (co-official); Kosovo (co-official);
Recognised minority; language in	Montenegro; Croatia; North Macedonia; Romania; Hungary; Czech Republic; Slovakia;
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sr
ISO 639-2	srp
ISO 639-3	srp
Glottolog	serb1264
Linguasphere	part of 53-AAA-g
	Countries where Serbian is an official language. Countries where Serbian is a recognized minority language.
	Serbian is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Serbian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language, mainly used by Serbs. It is the national official language and literary standard of Serbia, one of the official languages in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, and a recognized minority language in numerous countries.

Serbian is based on the most widespread supradialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian (more specifically on the dialects of Šumadija-Vojvodina and Eastern Herzegovina), which is also the basis of other Serbo-Croatian standard varieties: Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

Serbian is a rare example of synchronic digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin scripts.