Serbo-Croatian

American  

[sur-boh-kroh-ey-shuhn, -shee-uhn] / ˌsɜr boʊ kroʊˈeɪ ʃən, -ʃi ən /

noun

1. a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Serbo-Croatian.

Example Sentences

When the former Yugoslavia split apart, the language once known as Serbo-Croatian disappeared to be replaced by Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

In those years, thanks to millions of recent immigrants, the United States had an enormous foreign-language press written in dozens of tongues, from Serbo-Croatian to Greek, frustratingly incomprehensible to Burleson and his minions.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020

Raised in the former Yugoslavia, where he learned German, Hungarian, French and English in addition to Serbo-Croatian, Mr. Simon received a PhD in comparative literature from Harvard and worked for six decades as a critic.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019

Yugoslavian political prisoner Milovan Djilas translated Paradise Lost into Serbo-Croatian in the 1960s while he was imprisoned, writing the epic out on toilet paper with a pencil, and smuggling it out of prison.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2017

Leonard Barden, a British chess journalist, claimed that Fischer was asked so often what his result would be that he learned the Serbo-Croatian word for “first”: prvi.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady