Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 8.7 million speakers in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with recognized minority status in Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Serbian is mutually intelligible with Montenegrin, Bosnian and Croatian and shares the common features of Slavic and Balkan Sprachbund languages.
Serbian is the only European language with full digraphia, i.e. it is written in two writing systems – Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin.