How Serbian works, where it came from, and what is worth knowing about it before the first lesson.
Vuk's reform gave љ, њ, ћ and ђ their final shape, but it didn't put the sounds there - a much older process did, one consonant meeting ј at a time. That collision is not a fossil. It fires today, in full view, every time a Serbian verb turns into its own passive participle.
Serbian is written in Cyrillic and in Latin, and both are correct. Not two spellings and not two standards - two sets of signs for the same thirty sounds, which is why a Serb switches between them halfway down a street without noticing. Here is how the correspondence works, and the one place it quietly fails.
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