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Serbo-Croatian
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Serbocroatian
English
sh
Alternative forms
en Serbocroatian
abbreviation: en SCr.
Etymology
en :af Serbo- Croatian + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊkɹəʊˈeɪʃən/
en en-us-Serbo-Croatian.ogg US
Proper noun
Serbo-Croatian
en Q9301The South Slavic language of which Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are literary standards.
The standard Shtokavian variety of that language first codified in the Vienna Literary Agreement and later used officially in Yugoslavia.
Usage notes
Native speakers use various terms to refer to the form of language spoken by them (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, etc.). The name equivalent to Serbo-Croatian might be frowned upon by many and is not regularly used by speakers of Serbo-Croatian.
Synonyms
en Serbo-Croat
en Croato-Serbian
en Yugoslav dated non-standard
en BCS
en BCSM
en BCMS
en Illyrian obsolete
Hypernyms
en South Slavic
Meronyms
en Bosnian, en Croatian, en Montenegrin, en Serbian
en Chakavian, en Ekavian, en Ijekavian, en Ikavian, en Kajkavian, en Stokavian
Translations
South Slavic language
Arabic: ar صَرْبُو-كُرُوَاتِيّ m
Armenian: hy սերբախորվաթերեն
Basque: eu serbokroaziera
Belarusian: be сербскахарва́цкі f сербскахарва́цкая мо́ва, be сэрбскахарвацкі f сэрбскахарва́цкая мо́ва Taraškievica
Bengali: bn সার্বো-ক্রোয়েশীয়-বসনীয় ভাষা
Bulgarian: bg сърбохърватски m сърбохърва́тски ези́к
Catalan: ca serbocroat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 Sāi'ěrwéiyà-Kèluódìyàyǔ
Czech: cs srbochorvatština f
Danish: da serbokroatisk
Dutch: nl Servo-Kroatisch n, nl Servokroatisch n
Dzongkha: dz སོདབ་ཁ
Farefare: gur serbokoroatre
Finnish: fi serbokroaatti
French: fr serbo-croate m
Galician: gl serbocroata m
German: de Serbokroatisch n
Hebrew: he סֶרְבּוֹ־קְרוֹאָטִית f serbo-kro'átit
Hungarian: hu szerbhorvát
Icelandic: is serbókróatíska f
Irish: ga Seirbea-Chróitis f
Italian: it serbocroato m
Japanese: ja セルビア・クロアチア Serbia-Kuroachia, ja セルビア・クロアチア語 serbia-kuroachiago, ja セルボ・クロアチア語 Serubo-Kuroatiago
Korean: ko 세르보크로아트어
Latvian: lv serbhorvātu valoda f
Macedonian: mk српскохр́ватски m
Malay: ms Serbo-Croat, ms bahasa Serbo-Croat
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb serbokroatisk m n
Nynorsk: nn serbokroatisk m
Polish: język pl serbsko-chorwacki m
Portuguese: pt servo-croata, pt serbo-croata
Romanian: ro sârbocroată f
Russian: ru сербохорватский m сербохорва́тский язы́к, ru сербско-хорватский m се́рбско-хорва́тский язы́к
Scots: sco Serbo-Croatie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh српскохр̀ва̄тскӣ m, sh српско-хр̀ва̄тскӣ m, sh хрватскосрпски m, sh хрватско-српски m
Latin: sh srpskohr̀vātskī m, sh srpsko-hr̀vātskī m, sh hrvatskosrpski m, sh hrvatsko-srpski m
Slovak: sk srbochorvátčina f
Slovene: sl srbohrvaščina f
Spanish: es serbocroata
Swedish: sv serbokroatiska, sv serbo-kroatiska
Turkish: tr Sırp-Hırvatça
Ukrainian: uk сербсько-хорватський f се́рбсько-хорва́тська мо́ва
References
Noun
Serbo-Croatian
A person of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin ethnicity or descent.
en U. S. Department of Labor, Children’s Bureau: Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, Pa., Based on Births in One Calendar Year Infant Mortality Series No. 3; Bureau Publication No. 9 Emma Duke 1915 Washington w:United States Government Publishing Office 29 These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians.
en The National Claims of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes 1919 28 Of 41 members of the Dalmatian Diet, only 6 were Italians, elected all in the town of Zadar, in consequence of the censitary and curial system of elections, and 35 were Serbo-Croatians. All the deputies sent to the Vienna Parliament were Serbo-Croatians.
en The Other Side of the Altar: One Man’s Life in the Catholic Priesthood Paul E. Dinter 2003 w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1429984767 There was a respectable smattering of Italians, a few Poles and Germans, one Serbo-Croatian, and an Englishman named Bill Bishop, whose sidekick I became.
en Black Rednecks and White Liberals Thomas Sowell 2005 w:Encounter Books 1594030863 the illiteracy rate of Polish adults was 40 percent and among Serbo-Croatians was 77 percent, but among Germans only 6 percent.
en Cultural Health Assessment 4th Mosby’s Pocket Guide Series Carolyn Erickson D’Avanzo 2008 Mosby 0323086047 270 Germany absorbed two million refugees from Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation. The country has small groups of ethnic minorities of Italians, Serbo-Croatians, Greeks, Spanish, and about 98,000 Jews.
Adjective
Serbo-Croatian
In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.
Synonyms
en Croato-Serbian
Translations
pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language
Arabic: ar صَرْبُو-كُرُوَاتِيّ
Belarusian: be сербскахарва́цкі, be сэрбскахарва́цкі Taraškievica
Bulgarian: bg сърбохърва́тски
Catalan: ca serbocroat m, ca serbocroata f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語的 Sāi'ěrwéiyà-Kèluódìyàyǔ de
Czech: cs srbochorvatský
Finnish: fi serbokroaatinkielinen
French: fr serbo-croate
Galician: gl serbocroata
German: de serbokroatisch
Icelandic: is serbókróatískur
Italian: it serbocroato, it serbo-croato
Japanese: ja セルビア・クロアチア Serbia-Kuroachia
Macedonian: mk српскохр́ватски m
Malay: ms bahasa Serbo-Croat
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb serbokroatisk
Nynorsk: nn serbokroatisk
Polish: pl serbsko-chorwacki, pl serbochorwacki
Portuguese: pt servo-croata, pt serbo-croata
Russian: ru сербохорва́тский, ru се́рбско-хорва́тский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh српскохр̀ва̄тскӣ, sh српско-хр̀ва̄тскӣ, sh хрватскосрпски, sh хрватско-српски
Latin: sh srpskohr̀vātskī, sh srpsko-hr̀vātskī, sh hrvatskosrpski, sh hrvatsko-srpski
Slovak: sk srbochorvátsky
Slovene: sl srbohrvaški
Spanish: es serbocroata
Swedish: sv serbokroatisk
Turkish: tr Sırp-Hırvatça
Ukrainian: uk се́рбсько-хорва́тський, uk сербохорва́тський
See also
sh
en Bosnia, en Bosnian
en Croatia, en Croatian
en Montenegro, en Montenegrin
en Serbia, en Serbian
en Yugoslavia
Further reading
1 sh hbs
Anagrams
en aabceinoorrst Croato-Serbian
en Languages