Serbo-croatian (Noun)
Meaning
The Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- Serbo-Croatian was the official language of Yugoslavia before the country's dissolution in the 1990s.
- The language courses offered at the university included Serbo-Croatian, Polish, and Czech.
- Although Serbian and Croatian are now considered separate languages, they are mutually intelligible and were once classified as dialects of Serbo-Croatian.
- The novel was originally written in Serbo-Croatian but was later translated into several other languages.
- Many linguists still consider Serbo-Croatian a single language with multiple dialects, despite the political divisions between Serbia and Croatia.