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LingoBear creates short Serbian passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. South Slavic language with two alphabets — 30-letter Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin — used interchangeably, seven cases, pitch accent, ~12M speakers.

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Does Serbian really use two alphabets?

Yes — Serbian is the only major European language officially written in two alphabets. The 30-letter Vukovica Cyrillic alphabet (a one-to-one phonemic reform by Vuk Karadžić in the 19th century) is the constitutional script of state institutions; Gaj's Latin alphabet, identical to Croatian, is widely used in publishing, business and online. Most Serbs read both fluently.

What grammar features does Serbian have?

Serbian has seven cases, three genders, and verbs in perfective/imperfective aspect pairs. It preserves a four-way pitch-accent system (short-rising, short-falling, long-rising, long-falling), usually only marked in dictionaries. Serbian distinctly uses the ekavian pronunciation (mleko 'milk') in most of Serbia, while Bosnia and Montenegro share the ijekavian (mlijeko) used by Croatian.