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Serbian Alphabet with Pronunciation
There are five vowels and 25 consonants.
Stressed vowels tend to be pronounced more clearly and distinctly than their unstressed
counterparts. Stressed vowels are designated with :
Note that r can be both a consonant and a vowel, as in trn (thorn).
Consonants: t, d, s, z, l are dental, which means that the tip of the tongue touches back of the
upper teeth
Consonants: p, t are unaspirated at the beginning of a syllable. So, in this position, p and t
sound like soft English b and d respectively.
Both Latin and Cyrillic scripts are shown in the table below. The letter before ‘/’ is the
Latin variant and the letter in blue ink, after ‘/’ is a corresponding Cyrillic variant.
Pronunciation is given using both an English word (as a reference) and a Serbian word. To
hear either a Serbian or English pronunciation, just click over the word in orange.
A /Aa B / Бб C / Цц Č č / Чч Ć ć / Ћћ
[a:] ‘car’ [b] big [ts] ‘cats’ [ch] ‘chocolate’ No English equivalent; [ty] ‘tune’ in B. English
Ana Beograd cipela čokolada Zlatić, ćošak
D / Дд Dž/ Џџ Đđ / Ђђ E / Ee F/ Фф
[d] 'dog' [g] ‘George’ [j] ‘junk’
[dj] ‘juice’
[e] ‘bed’ [ei] ‘make’
[f] ‘father’
danas džak Ďak Evropa Filip
G/ г H / Xx I / Ии J / Jj K/ Kк
[g] 'god' [h] ‘hot’ [i:] ‘police’ [i] ‘fit’
[j] ‘you’ [j] ‘boy’
[k] ‘king’
guska hvala ima jaje kokoš
L/ Лл Lj/ Љљ M/ Mм N / Hн Nj / Њњ
[l] ‘loop’, ‘cool’
[ly] ‘million’ (as in British English)
[m] ‘mother’ [n] ‘no’ [ny] 'New'' , 'New York'
lopov ljubav mama ne njen
O/ Oo P / п R/ Pp S / Cc Š š/ Шш
[o:] ‘bowl’ [o] ‘caught’
[p] ‘spot’ [r] ‘berry’ [s] ‘sun’ [sh] ‘shop’
ono pismo Srbin, krava sunce ništa
T / Tt U / Yy V / Bв Z / Зз Žž / Жж
[t] ‘tone’ [u:] ‘food’ [u] ‘put’
[v] 'victory' [z] ‘zero’ [zh] ‘pleasure’, ‘Zhivago'
tata uvo, kuda veliki zec život