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- proper noun
Serbo-Croatian - adjective
Serbo-Croatian
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet
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Examples
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Some of the names used for my language in the past before the term Serbo-Croat were:
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After being asked four times to rule out such discussions on electoral reform, Cameron said: "Put the question in, you know, Serbo-Croat, if you want to – but you're going to get the same answer."
David Cameron leaves door open for poll deal with Liberal Democrats 2010
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For The Last Free City, where the inspiration was Renaissance Dubrovnik, I wanted to use names with a Serbo-Croat cast.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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For The Last Free City, where the inspiration was Renaissance Dubrovnik, I wanted to use names with a Serbo-Croat cast.
Archive 2010-05-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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The news in Serbo-Croat turned into news in Arabic, then something she guessed might have been Somali.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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The news in Serbo-Croat turned into news in Arabic, then something she guessed might have been Somali.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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We ordered the meal in a mixture of pointing to the Slovenian menu and my tourist-level Serbo-Croat - which is similar to Slovenian, but sufficiently distinct in various ways to easily qualify as a separate language.
Three meals, six languages nwhyte 2008
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I ought to get back in contact with a cousin of mine - his mom was born in Dalmatia, I believe, and he grew up speaking English, German, and the then Serbo-Croat (my uncle was in the military and his mom moved to Bavaria sometime after WWII and they were married for a few years before she divorced him and took my cousin back to Germany - long story).
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The language known prior to 1990 as Serbo-Croat is no longer classified as such, as the languages of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are now recognized as separate languages.
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Yet, in many ways, these three languages are mutually understandable, and a monolingual Serbo-Croat speaker in 1988 could perhaps consider him/herself trilingual today!
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