Serbo-Croatian
noun
Ser·bo-Cro·a·tian
ˌsər-(ˌ)bō-krō-ˈā-shən 
1
: the Serbian and Croatian languages together with the Slavic speech of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro taken as a single language with regional variants
2
: a person whose native language is Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian
adjective
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In the mission in Cyprus, for example, few peacekeepers speak Greek or Turkish; the same is true for Arabic or Nuer in South Sudan, Albanian or Serbo-Croatian in Kosovo, and French or Haitian Creole in Haiti.
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Séverine Autesserre, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
One of the world’s most vicious civil wars today, that in the land that once was Yugoslavia, pits peoples unified by language but divided by religion and ethnicity: Orthodox Serbs against Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians, all speaking Serbo-Croatian.
—Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Séverine Autesserre, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
One of the world’s most vicious civil wars today, that in the land that once was Yugoslavia, pits peoples unified by language but divided by religion and ethnicity: Orthodox Serbs against Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians, all speaking Serbo-Croatian.
—Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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