Croatian language - Vowels. The Croatian vowel system is simple, with five long and five short vowels (all monophthongs), as well as the diphthong /ie/. Although meaningful, the difference between long and short vowels is not represented in Croatian orthography. The five vowel qualities are as follows. (A schwa /ə/ also occurs marginally.) The syllabic trill can also be either long or short, and can carry ...

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Serbo-Croatian language - Vowels. The Serbo-Croatian vowel system is simple, with only five vowels. All vowels are monophthongs. The oral vowels are as follows: Serbo-Croatian language - Consonants. The consonant system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants. As in English, voicedness is phonemic, but aspiration is not. In consonant clusters all consonants are either voiced or voiceless. All the consonants are ...

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The Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. It is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem. Croatian is based on the Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet. The modern Croatian standard language is a continuous outgrowth of more than nine hundred years of literature written in a mixture of Croatian Church Slavonic and the vernacular language. If the sub ...

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Serbo-Croatian language - Contemporary names. Before (1920s) and after (1980s) the formal existence of similar ethnic/national/standard languages, people did and do not call the language Serbo-Croatian. They called and call it using their ethnic/national names: Bosniaks call their language Bosnian Croats call their language Croatian. Serbs call their language Serbian. Some Montenegrins call their language Montenegrin. For more information, see: Dif ...

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Serbo-Croatian orthography is supposed to be completely phonetic. Thus, every word is allegedly spelled exactly as it is pronounced. In practice, the writing system does not take into account allophones which occur as result of interaction between words: bit će — pronounced biće (and only written separately in Croatian) od toga — pronounced otoga, esp. in rapid speech< ...

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Main article: South Slavic languages The primary dialects are named after the word for what. Štokavian (Štokavski) uses the word što or šta, Čakavian (čakavski) uses ča; Kajkavian (kajkavski), kaj. However, the Serbo-Croatian standard language as well as contemporary standard languages are based on Shtokavian, and Chakavian and Kajkavian were "adopted" into the classification more for political reasons. Torlakian (torlački) was regarded as an old Shtokavian dialect and not included explicitly, although ...

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Throughout the history of the South Slavs, the vernacular, literature and written language of the regions and ethnicities developed independently and diverged to a point. From the genetic linguistics point of view, Serbo-Croatian grew out from Neo-Štokavian dialecs. In the mid 19th century, Serbian (led by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić) and Croatian writers and linguists (represented in Illyrian movement led by Ljudevit Gaj and Đuro Daničić) decided to use the most widespread Štokavian dialect as a basis for their standard la ...

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Serbo-Croatian is a highly inflected language. Traditional grammars list seven cases for nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, and instrumental, reflecting the original seven cases of Proto-Slavic, and indeed older forms of Serbo-Croatian itself. However, in modern Štokavian the locative has almost merged into dative (the only difference is based on accent in some cases), and the other cases can be shown declining; namely: For all nouns and adjectives, Instr. = Dat. = Loc. (at least ...

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Throughout the history of the South Slavs, the vernacular, literature, and written language of the regions and ethnicities developed independently and diverged to a point. From the point of view of genetic linguistics, Serbo-Croatian grew out of Neo-Štokavian dialects. In the mid 19th century, Serbian (led by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić) and Croatian writers and linguists (represented in Illyrian movement led by Ljudevit Gaj and Đuro Daničić) decided to use the most widespread Štokavian dialect as a basis for their standard ...

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Through history, this language has been written in a number of writing systems: various modifications of the Latin and Greek alphabets. Angled, Round, and Triangled Glagolitic alphabet. Cyrillic alphabet. Arabic alphabet. The oldest preserved text written completely in the Latin alphabet is "Red i zakon sestara reda Svetog Dominika", from 1345. Today, it is written in both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. Serbian and Bosnian use both alphabets, while Croatian uses only the Latin. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was ...

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Serbian language - Cases. There are seven cases in Serbian: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental and locative. This, in concert with a non-fixed word-order, can make Serbian difficult to learn for speakers of languages without a strong case system. In Serbian, the sentence "Anna loves Philip" can therefore variously be expressed thus: Ana voli Filipa Filipa voli Ana Ana Filipa voli Filipa Ana voli ...

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Main article: Serbian literature Serbian literature emerged in the Middle Ages, and included such works as Miroslavljevo jevanđelje (The Gospel of Miroslav) in 1192 and Dušanov zakonik (Dušan's Code) in 1349. Little secular mediæval literature has been preserved, but what there is shows that it was in accord with its time; for example, Serbian Alexandride, a book about Alexander the Great, and a ...

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The following compares Српска Ћирилица (Serbian Cyrillic script) or Aзбука (Azbuka) with Srpska Latinica (Serbian Latin script) or Abeceda. Serbian language - Notes. The letters Lj, Nj and Dž are represented by two characters in the Latin alphabet. Also, the letter Đ is sometimes written as Dj. The sort order of the two alphabets is different. Azbuka: А Б В Г Д Ђ Е Ж З И Ј К Л Љ � ...

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Two Serbian words that are used in many of the world's languages are vampire and slivovitz (though the etymology and origin of the word vampire is disputed [1]). ...

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The following compares Српска Ћирилица (Serbian Cyrillic script) or Aзбука (Azbuka) with Srpska Latinica (Serbian Latin script) or Abeceda. Serbian language - Notes. The letters Lj, Nj and Dž are represented by two characters in the Latin alphabet and are always written together even in top-down text). They are also sorted together (i.e. ljubav comes after lopta). Cyrillic is considered more precise because there is no ambiguity involved ...

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Serbian language - Vowels. The Serbian vowel system is simple, with only five vowels. All vowels are monophthongs. The oral vowels are as follows: Serbian language - Consonants. The consonant system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants. As in English, voicedness is phonemic, but aspiration is not. In consonant clusters all consonants are either voiced or voiceless. All the consonants are voiced (if the last c ...

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The following compares Српска Ћирилица (Serbian Cyrillic script) or Aзбука (Azbuka) with Srpska Latinica (Serbian Latin script) or Abeceda. Serbian language - Notes. The letters Lj, Nj and Dž are represented by two characters in the Latin alphabet. Also, the letter Đ is sometimes written as Dj. The sort order of the two alphabets is different. Azbuka: А Б В Г Д Ђ Е Ж З И Ј К Л Љ � ...

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