Jao, ja sam ipak citala dalje od Duje. Prvo sam se slatko ismejala:
Croatian Latin alphabet is a Latin interpretation of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet.
Croats "borrowed" some letters from Czech (è,ž,š) and Polish (æ,ð,dž) alphabets. Each letter represents a single sound.
Serbian alphabet is the only perfect alphabet in the world, all sounds of the language are represented by a single letter.
Sadly, most Serbs in their daily lives use Croatian Latin alphabet, mainly because Cyrillic was suppressed during the Communist era.
A onda mi je malo pripalo muka:
# It is utopia to think that Bosnian language exists.
# Bosnian Muslims speak Croatian, but they have been trying to create a language of their own.
# Their dictionary has many words from other foreign languages like Turkish and Arabian. Unfortunately, the words are not used in daily life.
# Bosnians are trying to "dig out" the word obsolete from Serbian language, used between 16 and 19 century, while Serbs were conquered by Ottomans.
# In order to help Bosnians to create a language of their own, I collected over 17.000 words obsolete from Serbian language.
# Those words were taken from other foreign languages ex. Arabian (musafir, metresa, silav) or Greek (hefta, fara, eremit, sulundar, baldahin).
# Some words came from Latin (tremor, škrinja, bolina) or Turkish (duvar, fes, hasna, hajvan) etc.
# For such words, Serbian language has corresponding words of Slavic origin.
# Sadly, Bosnian "language masons" have no idea what language those words came from. The rule is "Anything but Serbian".
# If you search our database with an obsolete word, our search program will offer you lingvistically correct word(s).
