# Serbo-Croatian
## English
### Alternative forms

* Serbocroatian
* (abbreviation): SCr.

### Etymology

From Serbo- +‎ Croatian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊkɹəʊˈeɪʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

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

#### Usage notes

Native speakers use various terms to refer to the form of language spoken by them (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, etc.). The name equivalent to Serbo-Croatian might be frowned upon by many and is not regularly used by speakers of Serbo-Croatian.

#### Synonyms

* Serbo-Croat
* Croato-Serbian
* Yugoslav (dated, non-standard)
* BCS
* BCSM
* BCMS
* Illyrian (obsolete)

#### Hypernyms

* South Slavic

#### Meronyms

* Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian
* Chakavian, Ekavian, Ijekavian, Ikavian, Kajkavian, Stokavian

#### References

* Serbo-Croatian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Noun

Serbo-Croatian (plural Serbo-Croatians)
* A person of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin ethnicity or descent.
** 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:These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians.
** 1919, The National Claims of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes, page 28: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.
** 2003, Paul E. Dinter, The Other Side of the Altar: One Man’s Life in the Catholic Priesthood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN: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.
** 2005, Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Encounter Books, →ISBN:[…] the illiteracy rate of Polish adults was 40 percent and among Serbo-Croatians was 77 percent, but among Germans only 6 percent.
** 2008, Carolyn Erickson D’Avanzo, Cultural Health Assessment (Mosby’s Pocket Guide Series), 4th edition, Mosby, →ISBN, page 270: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.

### Adjective

Serbo-Croatian (comparative more Serbo-Croatian, superlative most Serbo-Croatian)
* In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.

#### Synonyms

* Croato-Serbian

#### Translations
### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Serbo-Croatian terms
* Bosnia, Bosnian
* Croatia, Croatian
* Montenegro, Montenegrin
* Serbia, Serbian
* Yugoslavia

### Further reading

* ISO 639-1 code sh, ISO 639-3 code hbs (SIL)

### Anagrams

* Croato-Serbian