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Definition of Serbo-Croatian
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Serbo-Croatian
1. Proper noun. (historical) The standard language of Yugoslavia, in which Serbian and Croatian languages were considered as a unit (as "Eastern variant" and "Western variant" respectively), and in which Bosnian language did not exist ¹
2. Proper noun. An umbrella term for all the Slavic dialects spoken in nowadays Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro; in dialectology commonly referred to as ''Central South Slavic diasystem''. ¹
3. Proper noun. A macrolanguage grouping of standard Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language employed by ISO 639-3 ¹
4. Adjective. pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serbo-Croatian
Literary usage of Serbo-Croatian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When, however, the Austrian government collapsed (in 1859) and the necessity of
Serbo-Croatian help was again keenly felt, several Serbo-Croatian ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Among the phonetic peculiarities of Serbo-Croatian are the frequent occurrence
of the broad a, for the e or о in the other Slavic languages, ..."
3. The Hapsburg Monarchy by Henry Wickham Steed (1913)
"... Emperor would attend the combined naval and military manoeuvres near Ragusa
that were to take place in the autumn of 1906. The Serbo-Croatian leader, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The Serbo-Croatian language consists of three dialect groups which are distinguished
by the word used for "what?" which is respectively shto, cha and kay. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"As the literary language of both nations is now practically the same, and is,
indeed, commonly known as " Serbo- Croatian," the reader may be referred to ..."
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