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Serbo-Croatian

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Serbo-Croatian , language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Serbo-Croatian comprises several dialects, one of which (Stokavian) has given rise to modern standard Serbian, which is spoken mainly in Serbia and written mainly in a form of the Cyrillic alphabet, and modern standard Croatian, which is spoken mainly in Croatia written in a modified version of the Roman alphabet. The other dialects are mainly found in parts of Croatia and Bosnia, and the predominant pre-1990s dialect in Bosnia and in... Read more
Serbo-Croatian language
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...Slavic compatriots. The move toward a unified 'Serbo-Croatian' was supported by the politically unified Yugoslav...single language, which has historically been called Serbo-Croatian. Serbo-Croatian language Serbo-Croatian language Serbo-Croatian... Read more
Serbo-Croatian
Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes Serbo-Croatian • ashen , fashion, passion, ration • abstraction , action...ovation, potation, relation, rogation, rotation, Sarmatian, sedation, Serbo-Croatian, station, taxation, Thracian, vacation, vexation, vocation, zonation... Read more

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CIA scrapbook in Serbo-Croatian. (Yugoslavian history of the Central Intelligence Agency)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/26/1987; 461 words ; CIA scrapbook in Serbo-Croatian It is the closest thing yet to an official history of the CIA...enough to set an agent's teeth on edge, it also turned out that a Serbo-Croatian edition of the book was released simultaneously with the English... Read more
Serbo-Croatian Words on the Border Between Lexicon and Grammar*
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...for which she finds the name Serbo-Croatian most appropriate. The work under...raise particular problems for Serbo-Croatian studies and even for general linguistics...rdic's results indeed can be termed "Serbo-Croatian," being the same for usage in... Read more
Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection with Special Attention to Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...knowledge of another is "not a very daunting task." They state that confronted with a passage in, e.g., Czech, Polish, or Serbo-Croatian, based on a knowledge of, e.g., Russian alone, "you will probably have great difficulty doing more than figuring out... Read more
The Serbo-Croatian War
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/25/1991; 414 words ; ...peace making requires at least a minimal interest in peace on the part of the combatants. That's still lacking in the Serbo-Croatian civil war. All that the outsiders - the United Nations, the United States, the European Community, the Soviet Union... Read more
Hungarians Face Uncertain Future in Serbia; Ethnic Group Living Near Border in Yugoslavia Tries to Avoid Serbo-Croatian Conflict
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/13/1991; ; 660 words ; The road sign at the outskirts of this ethnic Hungarian hamlet reveals much more than the town's name. Over the printed word "Bajmok" somebody has sprayed "Serbia" in defiant red paint. It is a reminder, like the nationalist graffiti in town declaring "For the King and for Serbia," that passions Read more
Is Yugoslavia cracking up? (Serbo-Croatian strife)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 10/8/1990; ; 700+ words ; Is Yugoslavia Cracking Up? I always feel uneasy when I see news about my country in the foreign press. I know it usually means bad news. But the fact is that this time the situation really is dangerous, and it has been obscured because of the Persian Gulf crisis. What the world wants at this moment Read more
PORTUGUESE, VIETNAMESE, SERBO-CROATIAN, CHINESE, HAITIAN (CREOLE), SPANISH, SOMALI, RUSSIAN . . . SPOKEN HERE STUDENTS TEACHERS STRUGGLE TO MEET ENGLISH FLUENCY GOALS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/2/2005; ; 700+ words ; [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Sunday, October 9, 2005: Correction: Because of a reporting error, an article about English immersion classes in Sunday's Globe North incorrectly described a math lesson for sixth-graders at the William McKinley School in Revere. The lesson was 0.8 x 0.2 = 0.16. The Read more
The reel San Pedro | Filmmaker tells the Serbo-Croatian story of friends, soccer and war
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 10/4/2003; ; 615 words ; MORE SAN PEDRO Sasha Knezev has a story to tell. And now the former San Pedro resident of 11 years has a film to share that story with the world. Knezev's film titled, "Welcome to San Pedro," tracks six lifelong friends of Serbian and Croatian decent during three days in 1999 as their respective Read more
War Takes Toll on Serbo-Croatian Couples; Former School Friends, Lovers, Spouses Now Look at Each Other as Enemies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/4/1991; ; 700+ words ; They were married four years ago, paying no attention to his being a Serb and her being a Croat. She is in camouflage uniform now as a medic with the Croatian National Guard, posted here in a village on the front lines of a war between Serbs and Croats. Mirjana Vojnovic, 24, has been trained to Read more
`Pretty Village, Pretty Flame': Ugly Truth
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/1997; ; 381 words ; FILMS ABOUT the Serbo-Croatian-Muslim conflict have been surprisingly...that's inevitable. No depiction of the Serbo-Croatian-Muslim conflict -- surely one of...scenes, war carnage and profanity. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles, at the American... Read more

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