Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The closely related South Slavic languages of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia when considered as a single language.
- noun A native speaker of Serbo-Croatian.
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- proper noun The
South Slavic macrolanguage of whichBosnian ,Croatian ,Montenegrin , andSerbian are dialects. - adjective In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.
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
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suggest "the language formerly known as Serbo-Croatian," represented by an unpronounceable symbol.
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At least they speak Croatian in Slavonia I'm not commenting on that dire "Serbo-Croatian" issue.
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By the way, none of this is to suggest that the designation “Serbo-Croatian” is or should be politically or culturally neutral, or that its use effectively sidesteps the fact that the languages of the former Yugoslavia have indeed evolved on distinct paths since the Middle Ages.1 But to get back to your free trip to Italy, there are arguably at least as many tongues on that side of the Adriatic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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By the way, none of this is to suggest that the designation “Serbo-Croatian” is or should be politically or culturally neutral, or that its use effectively sidesteps the fact that the languages of the former Yugoslavia have indeed evolved on distinct paths since the Middle Ages.1 But to get back to your free trip to Italy, there are arguably at least as many tongues on that side of the Adriatic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Also, in addition to its increasingly popular Al Jazeera English, the network will soon offer new channels in Turkish, Swahili, and Serbo-Croatian - all costly projects with uncertain benefits.
Philip Seib: Al Jazeera at 15 Years Philip Seib 2011
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I used to know how to say "Did you ever participate in an Air Raid?" in Serbo-Croatian, from an Army manual from WW2, and when I lived in NYC & went to Chinatown functions frequented by local pols, my girlfriend taught me to say "Are you corrupt?" in Mandarin - all the grinning ignorant Public Servants reflexively replied "yes, yes" when I asked them, to the delight of the Chinese at the table.
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So, when I was in an elementary school (I was born in 1963), I started reading SF, Serbo-Croatian translations at first.
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Much of the love talk offered in Appland appears to have been translated by a computer from the original Serbo-Croatian.
What's App With That? Mobile Devices and the State of Love Eric Felten 2012
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Also, in addition to its increasingly popular Al Jazeera English, the network will soon offer new channels in Turkish, Swahili, and Serbo-Croatian - all costly projects with uncertain benefits.
Philip Seib: Al Jazeera at 15 Years Philip Seib 2011
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And so I looked immediately at an inner page and found that it was still the same Serbo-Croatian, and that seemed to lead well beyond the length of any joke.
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