A few words about Cyrillic

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As you might have noticed in the images and the maps I linked, the Cyrillic script is used in Serbia. This script is also used in other countries of the Balkans but in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia one can choose between the Latin and the Cyrillic script. In Bosnia Cyrillic is mostly used in the Serbian entity while I haven't seen it often in the Bosnian-Croat entity. In Serbia all official documents have to be in Cyrillic but for tourists maps, etc. the Latin script is used. There are also some street signs in the 2 scripts. For the private usage some (also younger people) told me that Cyrillic is easier to write by hand while on the PC the Latin script is faster to use. In Montenegro Cyrillic is not as present as in Serbia, except of some towns where people feel more like Serbians than Montenegrins (for example in Херцег Нови).

Reading Cyrillic is relatively easy because there are conversion tables for the different languages. This is the one for Serbian:

Cyrillic	Latin	IPA
А а	A a	a
Б б	B b	b
В в	V v	ʋ
Г г	G g	ɡ
Д д	D d	d
Ђ ђ	Đ đ	d͡ʑ
Е е	E e	e
Ж ж	Ž ž	ʒ
З з	Z z	z
И и	I i	i
Ј ј	J j	j
К к	K k	k
Л л	L l	l
Љ љ	Lj lj	ʎ
М м	M m	m
Н н	N n	n
Њ њ	Nj nj	ɲ
О о	O o	o
П п	P p	p
Р р	R r	r
С с	S s	s
Т т	T t	t
Ћ ћ	Ć ć	t͡ɕ
У у	U u	u
Ф ф	F f	f
Х х	H h	x
Ц ц	C c	t͡s
Ч ч	Č č	t͡ʃ
Џ џ	Dž dž	d͡ʒ
Ш ш	Š š	ʃ

The characters might look complicated but when you think of the Greek characters you learned at school for math variables you will see many similarities. For example the Г is the Greek Gamma, П is the Greek Pi, Ф is the Greek Phi, Л is very close to the Greek Lambda,  etc. Finally keep in mind that the Cyrillic С is the Latin S and then you almost have it.

You might wonder why it should be helpful to read a language one can nevertheless not understand. Well, if you ask people in the streets or look in a map because you want to visit e.g. the beautiful Kraljevski kompleks, it is very helpful to read that the road sign with "Краљевски комплекс" is the one you need to follow.