Serbian Cyrillic alphabet

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The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (Serbian: српска ћирилица / srpska ćirilica, IPA: [sr̩̂pskaː t͡ɕirǐlit͡sa]) is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language and the Serbo-Croatian varieties of Bosnian and Montenegrin. It is the official first script of the modern standard Serbian language along with Gaj's Latin alphabet, which according to Serbian law, can be used in parallel. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th century by the Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić. Karadžić based his reform on the earlier 18th-century Slavonic-Serbian script. Following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written" (piši kao što govoriš, čitaj kao što je napisano), he removed obsolete letters, eliminated redundant representations of iotated vowels, and introduced the letter ⟨J⟩ from the Latin script. He also created new letters for sounds unique to Serbian phonology. According to that, Ljudevit Gaj with the...

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