Can Croatians and Serbians understand each other?
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Can Croatians and Serbians understand each other?
“Serbs and Croats can understand each other on the level of basic communication. Croatians have coined entirely new words, Bosniaks have peppered their speech with Turkic terms and phrases, and Serbs throughout the region remain committed to using the Cyrillic alphabet instead of Latin script.
How many Serbians live in USA?
The group includes Serbian Americans living in the United States for one or several generations, dual Serbian–American citizens, or any other Serbian Americans who consider themselves to be affiliated with both cultures or countries….Serbian-born population.
| Year | Number |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 33,628 |
| 2015 | 36,969 |
| 2016 | 37,654 |
| 2017 | 38,203 |
Why do Serbs and Croats speak the same language?
Originally Answered: Why are Serbian and Croatian often treated like distinct languages? Short answer: Because they officially are. Even in Croatia Serbian is considered a distinct language spoken by the largely Serb minority in Croatia and same thing in Serbia and Croatian among the Croatian minority there.
Why are there so many different words in Croatian and Serbian?
Some of those words are just regionally colored, such as: Serbian greeting “zdravo” and Croatian “bog”, or “hleb/hljeb” vs “kruh”, “voz” vs “vlak” etc. Other words are different because Serbs took a foreign word and Croats coined their own word: pasoš / putovnica; avion / zrakoplov; aerodrom / zračna luka.
Do other countries love or hate Serbia?
Greece and Romania love Serbia, there also friendly relations with Bulgaria and Hungary. We have significant Hungarian minority and never any problems with them. There is hatred only on part of nations who were integrated into Yugoslavia with Serbian victory in WWI and wanted to separate with their internal borders in the 90’s]
Can Bosnian and Serbian be spoken together?
In addition, the Serbian standard assimilated another subdialect: Shumadinian-Voivodinian (šumadijsko-vojvođanski) – marked blue in the picture. The conclusion is: weather you learn Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian or Croatian, you will be able to communicate across all the four countries.
Is there any conflict between Albania and Serbia?
Albania: While the countries of Albania and Serbia had no existential conflict there was/is the matter of the Albanian dominated historical ex Serbian region of Kosovo. Kosovo will always be a thorn in Albania/Serbia relations.
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