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Language Information
Serbian and Croatian are generally considered one language, combined under the single term Serbo-Croatian. The latter is the most important language of Yugoslavia, where it is spoken by about 8 million people, or about 80 percent of the population. The Serbs, however, call their language Serbian, and being of Eastern Orthodox religious persuasion, write it in a modified form of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Roman Catholic Croats, on the other hand, call their language Croatian and employ the Roman alphabet. Street signs and other inscriptions in Yugoslavia are generally written in both alphabets.
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For each Cyrillic letter in the Serbian alphabet there is a corresponding Roman letter in the Croatian alphabet.
Ivo Andné was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961.
Serbian is spoken/used in the following countries:
- Language Family
- E. European
Serbian Language Sample
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Сва људска бића рађају се слободна и једнака у достојанству и правима. Она су обдарена разумом и свешћу и треба једни према другима да поступају у духу братства.English translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Source: OHCHR translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights