Serbo-Croat

British  

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

---

adjective

1. of or relating to this language

Usage

See See at Bosnian

Example Sentences

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

His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native Albanian and Serbo-Croat.

From Time Magazine Archive

From his experience at the Interzonal and the Candidates tournament in 1958–59, both held in Yugoslavia, he’d grasped enough of the language to at least autograph his name in Serbo-Croat.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady