Serbo-Croatian

alternative Serbocroatian · alternative SCr.

1. The South Slavic language of which Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are literary standards.
2. The standard Shtokavian variety of that language first codified in the Vienna Literary Agreement and later used officially in Yugoslavia.

plural Serbo-Croatians · alternative Serbocroatian · alternative SCr.

1. A person of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin ethnicity or descent.

   […]the illiteracy rate of Polish adults was 40 percent and among Serbo-Croatians was 77 percent, but among Germans only 6 percent.

   2005, Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Encounter Books, →ISBN

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   These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians.

   1915, Emma Duke, U. S. Department of Labor, Children’s Bureau: Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, Pa., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (Infant Mortality Series No. 3; Bureau Publication No. 9), Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, page 29

   Of 41 members of the Dalmatian Diet, only 6 were Italians, elected all in the town of Zadar, in consequence of the censitary and curial system of elections, and 35 were Serbo-Croatians. All the deputies sent to the Vienna Parliament were Serbo-Croatians.

   1919, The National Claims of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes, page 28

   There was a respectable smattering of Italians, a few Poles and Germans, one Serbo-Croatian, and an Englishman named Bill Bishop, whose sidekick I became.

   2003, Paul E. Dinter, The Other Side of the Altar: One Man’s Life in the Catholic Priesthood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

   Germany absorbed two million refugees from Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation. The country has small groups of ethnic minorities of Italians, Serbo-Croatians, Greeks, Spanish, and about 98,000 Jews.

   2008, Carolyn Erickson D’Avanzo, Cultural Health Assessment (Mosby’s Pocket Guide Series), 4th edition, Mosby, →ISBN, page 270

comparative more Serbo-Croatian · superlative most Serbo-Croatian · alternative Serbocroatian · alternative SCr.

1. In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.

   Synonyms: Croato-Serbian