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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

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

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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