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Learn Serbo-Croatian Pronunciation

Serbo-Croatian is a Slavic language and as such belongs to the IndoEuropean (or Indo-Hittite) family of languages. This family includes languages from East Pakistan to Great Britain and the New World. Slavic is one of the branches of this family and includes Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Other branches are: Germanic (English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, etc.), Italic (Latin, from which we get the Romance languages such as Rumanian, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese), Celtic (Welsh, Irish, etc.), Hellenic (Greek), Armenian, Albanian, Baltic (Lithuanian, LatVian), Indic (Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, GUjerati, etc.), Iranian (Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, etc.).

Even within the standard language there are accepted variations, which set off an eastern variety of dialect from a central one. Although they are the same language and mutually intelligible, there are enough differences between the two to make it more advisable for a beginner to learn one or the other, rather than mix the two. The eastern dialect is spoken in Serbia, the central in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and parts of western Serbia. The eastern type is standard for Belgrade and the central is the accepted standard in Zagreb, though the local dialect of the latter is somewhat different.

The eastern dialect is normally written in cyrillic letters and the central uses latin letters in Croatia, but cyrillic in Montenegro, and both cyrillic and latin in Bosnia and Hercegovina. In these units the Basic Sentence$ and Conversation drills are given in both latin and cyrillic, the version in latin letters being representative of central speech and that in cyrillic representing an eastern variety. Elsewhere latin letters are used but eastern speech.

These lessons are intended to give the beginner a useful oral command of the language and a reading knowledge somewhat broader than his speaking ability.