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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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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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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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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D with stroke can describe several letters used in various languages, past and present. Eth (Ð, ð), a letter used in Old English and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. Unicode U+00D0 and U+00F0. D with stroke (Đ, đ), a letter used in Shtokavian Western South Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian), Vietnamese, Northern Sami, and Skolt Sami. In Sami, it is a voiced dental fricative. In central Slavic, it is sometimes transcribed as dj as in Franjo Tudjman. ...

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Borogravia is a fictional country in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. It is small and extremely war-intensive, and closely resembles Yugoslavia in a number of respects, the most obvious being the prevalency of war, the similarities of the Serbo-Croatian and Borogravian languages, and the fact that Borogravia, like most of the Balkan countries, had a name ending in '-ia'. There are also many parallels with Afghanistan under the Taliban (the theocratic government, the ever-increasing list of religious "abominations", ...

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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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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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One still finds many references to Serbo-Croatian, and proponents of Serbo-Croatian who deny the existence of Croatian (as well as Serbian and Bosnian) as a separate standard language. The usual argument generally goes along the following lines: Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are almost completely mutually intelligible, sharing much vocabulary Typologically and structurally, these languages have virtually the same grammar, i.e. morphology and syntax The Serbo-Croatian language was "created" in the mid 19th centu ...

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One still finds many references to Serbo-Croatian, and proponents of Serbo-Croatian who deny the existence of Croatian (as well as Serbian and Bosnian) as a separate standard language. The usual argument generally goes along the following lines: Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are almost completely mutually intelligible, sharing much vocabulary Typologically and structurally, these languages have virtually the same grammar, i.e. morphology and syntax The Serbo-Croatian language was "created" in the mid 19th centu ...

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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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Although the first purely vernacular texts in a Croatian distinctly different from Church Slavonic date back to the 13th century, it was in the 14th and 15th centuries that the modern Croatian language emerged (recorded in texts as Vatican Croatian prayer book from 1400.) in the form (morphology, phonology and syntax) that only slightly differs from contemporary Croatian standard language. The standardization of Croatian language can be traced back to the first Croatian dictionary (Faust Vrančić: Dictionarium quinque nobil ...

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The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) was dominated by the Serbian government, which tried to use a joint language in the spirit of supra-national Yugoslav ideology. This meant that Croatian and Serbian were no longer developed individually side by side, but were attempted to be forged into one language under political pressure. Owing to the nature of the state politics at the time, this forging was resultant in a Serbian-based l ...

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Although the first purely vernacular texts in a Croatian distinctly different from Church Slavonic date back to the 13th century, it was in the 14th and 15th centuries that the modern Croatian language emerged (recorded in texts as Vatican Croatian prayer book from 1400.) in the form (morphology, phonology and syntax) that only slightly differs from contemporary Croatian standard language. The standardization of Croatian language can be traced back to the first Croatian dictionary (Faust Vrančić: Dictionarium quinque nobil ...

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Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There isn't a single official definition of Croatian, but there exists an Institute for Croatian language and linguistics with a prescription department. The current rules of the language are generally laid out in the grammar books and dictionaries used in education facilities, such as the school curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education and the univ ...

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The beginning of the Croatian written language can be traced to the 9th century, when Old Church Slavonic was adopted as the language of the liturgy. This language was gradually adapted to non-liturgical purposes and became known as the Croatian version of Old Slavonic. The two variants of the language, liturgical and non-liturgical, continued to be a part of the Glagolitic service as late as the mid-9th century. Until the end of the 11th century, Croatian medieval texts were written in three scripts: Latin, Glagolitic, and Bosnian Cy ...

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But, due to the unique Croat linguistic situation, formal shaping of Croatian standard language was a process that took almost four centuries to complete: Croatian is a three dialects tongue (a somewhat simplistic way to distinguish between dialects is to refer to the pronoun what, which is ča, kaj, što in, respectively, čakavian, kajkavian and štokavian dialects) and three scripts language (Glagolitic, Croatian/Western/Bosnian Cyrillic and Latin script, with Latin script as the ultimate winner). The final obstacle t ...

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The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) was dominated by the Serbian government, which tried to use a joint language in the spirit of supra-national Yugoslav ideology. This meant that Croatian and Serbian were no longer developed individually side by side, but were attempted to be forged into one language under political pressure. Owing to the nature of the state politics at the time, this forging was resultant in a Serbian-based language ...

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