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Serbo-Croat

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noun

  1. Also called: Croato-Serb.  a former name for the Serbian and Croatian languages considered together as branches of the same language, belonging to the South Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family. Serbian is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet, Croatian in Roman

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adjective

  1. of or relating to this language

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Usage

See See at Bosnian

Example Sentences

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For about 10 years until the late 1990s, he taught college-level business and Serbo-Croat language courses to U.S. service members.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

That’s now a good rugby story, of the kind told in bars the world over in English, Spanish, Serbo-Croat and Swahili, with gathering pace as a World Cup in Japan approaches.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2018

And before someone points this out, let me add that in these circumstances the resilience of languages from smaller countries, like Dutch or Serbo-Croat is all the more remarkable.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2010

The National Liberation movement is mainly peasant in character, and includes many members of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and other peasant organizations�Croat, Serb and Slovene.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suspicious as always of doctors, Bobby was also concerned about communicating in Serbo-Croat.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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