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 /

C /

[a:] car

[b] big

[ts] cats

[ch] chocolate

No English
equivalent; [ty] tune in B.
English

cipela

okolada

Zlati, oak

Ana

Beograd

D /

D/

[d] 'dog'

[g] George [dj]

[j] junk
juice
dak
ak

danas

/ E / Ee

F/

[e] bed
[ei] make
Evropa

[f] father
Filip

G/

H / Xx

I /

J / Jj

K/ K

[g] 'god'

[h] hot

[i:] police
[i] fit

[j] you
[j] boy

[k] king

guska

hvala

ima

jaje

L/

Lj/

M/ M

N / H

[l] loop,
cool

[ly] million

[m] mother [n] no

[ny] 'New'' , 'New

York'

lopov

ljubav

mama

ne

njen

O/ Oo

P/

R/ Pp

S / Cc

[o:] bowl
[p] spot
[o] caught

[r] berry

[s] sun

[sh] shop

ono

pismo

Srbin, krava sunce

nita

T / Tt

U / Yy

V / B

Z /

[t] tone

[u:] food
[u] put

[v] 'victory'

[z] zero

[zh] pleasure,
Zhivago'

tata

uvo, kuda

veliki

zec

ivot

(as in British
English)

koko

Nj /

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