Serbo-Croat

noun

1. Also calledCroato-Serb a former name for the Serbian and Croatian languages considered together as branches of the same language, belonging to the South Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family. Serbian is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet, Croatian in Roman

adjective

1. of or relating to this language

Usage

See See at Bosnian

Example Sentences

From his experience at the Interzonal and the Candidates tournament in 1958–59, both held in Yugoslavia, he’d grasped enough of the language to at least autograph his name in Serbo-Croat.

From Literature

For about 10 years until the late 1990s, he taught college-level business and Serbo-Croat language courses to U.S. service members.

From Washington Post

That’s now a good rugby story, of the kind told in bars the world over in English, Spanish, Serbo-Croat and Swahili, with gathering pace as a World Cup in Japan approaches.

From The Guardian

The two languages are very close - in former Yugoslavia people spoke Serbo-Croat.

From BBC

The court heard his native language was Serbo-Croat and throughout his evidence - given from behind a curtain - he spoke quietly with an eastern European accent.

From BBC