The Serbian Cyrillic/ Српска ћирилица

[tedinkyyy]

I finally learned how to read all the letters that don't exist in our language.It was kinda hard cause I rarely meet Serbian written in Cyrillic and even when I see it in that way I first take it for Macedonian lol
For all the people studying Српски:

А - A
Б - B
В - V
Г - G
Д - D
Ђ - Đ
Е - E
Ж - Ž
З - Z
И - I
Ј - J
К - K
Л - L
Љ - Lj
М - M
Н - N
Њ - Nj
О - O
П - P
Р - R
С - S
Т - T
Ћ - Ć
У - U
Ф - F
Х - H
Ц - C
Ч - Č
Џ - Dž
Ш - Š

P.P wow it seems really strange for me to see ш as the last letter In the Bulgarian alphabet there are 5 more letters after it
Cyrillic rulz so use it more often

[i'm little one]

yeah hahah its endin in "ш" its strange for me too and i want all the time to continue it(like in Russian) but unfortinatelly its impossible
and i all the time forget how to read this letters "Ђ" and "Ћ" so when i see it,im startin thinkin so long

[tedinkyyy]

Hmm... upam se, da ti zdaj pomagam [ vem, da ti so všeč Siddharta ]

[Spring]

Originally Posted by i'm little one

and i all the time forget how to read this letters "Ђ" and "Ћ" so when i see it,im startin thinkin so long

The two letters used to drive me crazy in highschool.. when I was supposed to write without thinking.. I also had to think ..

As for pronounciation...

đ (dj) = Ђ ђ [dy] like "dy" in "would you" or...

like Lepa Brena's Đorđe (Đoka, Đole, Đokica) LOL



ć = Ћ ћ [ty] is very close to "ty" in "get you"; like in Italian Ciao

[pthalo]

I read that to pronounce ć you should put the tip of your tongue behind your bottom front teeth, don't close your teeth and say it that way. Is that correct?

[i'm little one]

hahah i like that song Lepa Brena's Đorđe (Đoka, Đole, Đokica) and if one day i learn Serbian ill be so happy
Spring thanks for explanationsbut i still cant accept that Serbian use latin letters more then cyrillic
Tedinkyyy,yeah im everywhere(seems in all Balkan's languages)and Siddharta is my favorite group(rock music) even that i dont know Slovenianbut from Serbian its as well Amadeus band for me

[miki444]

Originally Posted by i'm little one

hahah i like that song Lepa Brena's Đorđe (Đoka, Đole, Đokica) and if one day i learn Serbian ill be so happy
Spring thanks for explanationsbut i still cant accept that Serbian use latin letters more then cyrillic

why ? that's good! all countries should abolish cyrillic and move to latin letters,
so that i would be easier for me to learn the languages.
it takes me 5x the time to read a cyrillc text as opposed to a latin text.

[RebekaB]

Miki if that's criterion we all should speak English and that will be a lot easier to all. But that's stupid.

@Im the little one

We use both. Officialy. But all official documents are in cyrilic. I use cyrilic when I writte with hand but some scripts in the net don't read some our letters or cyrilic at all. So I think that's why we more often use latin letters. But also you have right There's a lot of people that use only latin letters.

[miki444]

rebeka, that was a joke

[RebekaB]

Miki, I know but i hate that kind of jokes

[Spring]

It's not a bad idea if you ask me
(having Latin as official script as well as English being the official language everywhere hehe)

[i'm little one]

Miki ,well cyrilic script in Serbian is easier for me(my native language is Russian and it helps me) cause when i see the text or smthin it, its so simple for me to translate it from Serbian to Rus. or Eng.,my head(brain) is startin workin so fast
but latin letters make me crazy so much,and in the beginin when i just start to learn and translate,it was like a disaster,but now let me say its ok
Rebeka i know u wont mind if i write with cyrilic lettersbut first i must learn grammar a little

[Zahal]

Originally Posted by miki444

It takes me 5x the time to read a cyrillc text as opposed to a latin text.

Hehe, welcome to the club!

But I would prefer Russian to be worldspread as a major language

However, I wonder if I can find good instructions how to write Cyrillics by hand, that is with small letters, on the internet?!
Like really basic instructions, the same the teachers give to the kids in elementary school.
I think that's the real challenge when we're talking Cyrillics!

[pthalo]

You can see the handwriting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic

That's how I learned, I copied those letters out and wrote them again and again.

[tedinkyyy]

Originally Posted by Spring

It's not a bad idea if you ask me
(having Latin as official script as well as English being the official language everywhere hehe)

Noooooo, give ur words back I love Cyrillic and I hate English...

[RebekaB]

Originally Posted by tedinkyyy

Noooooo, give ur words back I love Cyrillic and I hate English...

I agree with you

I don't like this first class kid's letters on wiki. Some of us should write it down and scan it so Zahal and the others can learn cirillyc

[pthalo]

ooh that's a good idea. I have had very little chance to try to read other people's handwriting. Maybe I could write something too and you could tell me if it's legible *g*

[pthalo]

Evo: http://pics.livejournal.com/pthalogr...c/000h61aw.jpg

[Spring]

Oh my God.. that's like my highschool nightmare! handwritten Cyrillic! And I am sure I haven't seen it minimum 10 years now lol
But you did it great pthalo! (and I dont know what you mean by lеgible g? Serbian д ?)

[pthalo]

thanks

*g* means *giggle*

[Dangerous & Moving]

Oh I adore hand-written cyrillic, for me it's so easy to write, unlike latin alphabet... it's kinda complicated when you want it to look nice.

[Zahal]

Originally Posted by RebekaB

We use both. Officialy. But all official documents are in cyrilic. I use cyrilic when I writte with hand but some scripts in the net don't read some our letters or cyrilic at all. So I think that's why we more often use latin letters. But also you have right There's a lot of people that use only latin letters.

So, they use Cyrillic in all text books at the University of Belgrade? It is the same in Novi Sad?

Jao, the written Cyrillic will take t-i-m-e to learn but thanks Pthalo for the link

[RebekaB]

Here is something from me.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4079/cirilica.jpg

[Spring]

Beautiful!
Here's a translation of the lines.. (could be better but still.. )

Miroslav Antic - Opomena

[Dangerous & Moving]

Nice poem! It reminded me of ''Opomena'' of Antun Branko Šimić
I love that one a lot

Opomena

Čovječe pazi
da ne ideš malen
ispod zvijezda!

Pusti
da cijelog tebe prođe
blaga svjetlost zvijezda!

Da ni za čim ne žališ
kad se budeš zadnjim pogledima
rastajao od zvijezda!

Na svom koncu
mjesto u prah
prijeđi sav u zvijezde.

[MayGoLoco]

Hey guys, here's a link to a learning book for writing cirillic.
It's for kids, but helpfull if you're a beginner haha

http://www.zshare.net/download/6450656956f77653/

[pthalo]

cool

[Sasskia]

Just a link for a little game to test your Serbian Cyrillic Cursive Alphabet :

http://www.purposegames.com/game/ff7851c4

Enjoy

[pthalo]

1 minute 23 seconds

it's good for working on remembering the order of the letters too. it took me forever to find c even though i knew it was near the end.

[pthalo]

got it in 59 seconds the second try.