13 examples of serbo-croatian in sentences
The destiny of the Serbo-Croatian future lies largely in the hands of Italy and Bulgaria.
A friendly Serbo-Croatian buffer State against Germany will probably be of equal comfort in the future to Italy and Bulgaria; more especially if Italy has pushed down the Adriatic coast along the line of the former Venetian possessions.
In course of time, for various reasons connected with religion and politics, the distinction was emphasized, and from a historical point of view the Serbo-Croatian race has always been divided into two.
The designation Southern Slav (or Jugo-Slav, jug, pronounced yug, = south in Serbian) covers Serbs and Croats, and also includes Slovenes; it is only used with reference to the Bulgarians from the point of view of philology (the group of South Slavonic languages including Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; the East Slavonic, Russian; and the West Slavonic, Polish and Bohemian).
In the history of the Serbs and Croats, or of the Serbo-Croatian race, several factors of a general nature have first to be considered, which have influenced its whole development.
The Serbo-Croatian race unwittingly occupied a country that was cut in two by the line that divides East from West, and separates Constantinople and the Eastern Church from Rome and the Western.
Military prowess had been the one quality with which they, and indeed everybody else, had refused to credit the Serbians of the kingdom, and the triumphs of the valiant Serbian peasant soldiers immediately imparted a heroic glow to the country whose very name, at any rate in central Europe, had become a byword, and a synonym for failure; Belgrade became the cynosure and the rallying-centre of the whole Serbo-Croatian race.
© 1Nov45; AA497744. Spoken Language Services, Inc. (PCB); 3Jan73; R542400. HODGE, CARLETON. Spoken Serbo-Croatian, basic course.
SEE LESNIN, I. M. Spoken Serbo-Croatian, basic course.
Spoken Serbo-Croatian; basic course.
© 1Nov45; AA497744. Spoken Language Services, Inc. (PCB); 3Jan73; R542400. HODGE, CARLETON. Spoken Serbo-Croatian, basic course.
SEE LESNIN, I. M. Spoken Serbo-Croatian, basic course.
Spoken Serbo-Croatian; basic course.
