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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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.
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Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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