Serbo-Croatian
South Slavic language
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Summary
Serbo-Croatian is a natural language[1]. Serbo-Croatian ranks in the top 8% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,772 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina[3], Serbia[4], Croatia[5], Montenegro[6], Yugoslavia[7]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[8], modern language[9], pluricentric language[10]
- Subclass of: Western South Slavic[11]
- Writing system: Gaj's Latin alphabet[12], Serbian Cyrillic alphabet[13], Cyrillic script[14], Latin script[15]
- Commons category: Serbo-Croatian language[16]
- Wikimedia language code: sh[17], hbs[18]
- Said to be the same as: Central South Slavic diasystem[19], Serbian[20], Croatian[21], Bosnian[22], Montenegrin[23]
- Topic's main category: Category:Serbo-Croatian[24]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 19,000,000[25]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[26], Otto's encyclopedia[27], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29]
- Topic has template: Template:Serbo-Croatian language[30]
- Has characteristic: agreement[31]
- Native label: srpskohrvatski jezik[32], hrvatskosrpski jezik[33], хрватскосрпски језик[34], српскохрватски језик[35]
- Short name: serb-xorvatca[36], сербу-хорватӣ[37], serbocroata[38], hrvatskosrpski[39], srpskohrvatski[40], српскохрватски[41], хрватскосрпски[42], сърбохърватски[43], сербохорватский[44]
- Female form of label: la langue serbo-croate[45]
- Studied by: Serbo-Croatian studies[46]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HBS[47], https://afbo.info/languages/103[48]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q12960906[49]
Why It Matters
Serbo-Croatian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Serbo-Croatian is known by 91 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]