The Serbian Language

• Serbian is a South Slavic language and uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
• It is one of the few European languages with active digraphia (use of two writing systems).
• The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was devised in 1814 by linguist Vuk Karadžić on phonemic principles.
• Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken by about 12 million people, mainly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia.
• It uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, with the choice depending on the region and context.
• Serbian has a rich cultural heritage, with contributions to literature, music, and folklore.

About Tingha

Tingha is a small town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia in Guyra Shire. It is 30 kilometres south of Inverell and 629 kilometres north-north-east of Sydney. Tingha is an Aboriginal word for ‘flat or level'. Before European settlement the Tingha area was occupied by the Anaiwan, a sub-group of the Murri Aboriginal people. Many of their descendants still live in the surrounding area.

Tingha was first settled in 1841 by Sydney Hudson Darby and became a mining town after tin was discovered there in the 1870s. Within a year Australia’s first commercial tin mines were operating at a private settlement known as Armidale Crossing. Over 6,000 people arrived and more than 25% of the miners were Chinese. The Wing Hing Long Museum is a reminder of that heritage. Armidale Crossing Post Office opened on 1 September 1872 and was renamed Tingha the next month.

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