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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A subdivision of the Slavic languages that includes Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and the extinct Old Church Slavonic.

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  • proper noun A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) and Bulgaria.

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Examples

  • The same appears to be going on in Japanese, Yiddish, and the South Slavic examples I mentioned.

    Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms mj 2009

  • In Czech and South Slavic it has the normal range of meanings.

    languagehat.com: DIVAN. 2005

  • Decimated as a result of World War I, the country united with other South Slavic peoples into a Yugoslav state which would exist in several formations up until 2006, when Serbia once again became independent.

    WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010

  • Decimated as a result of World War I, the country united with other South Slavic peoples into a Yugoslav state which would exist in several formations up until 2006, when Serbia once again became independent.

    WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010

  • Decimated as a result of World War I, the country united with other South Slavic peoples into a Yugoslav state which would exist in several formations up until 2006, when Serbia once again became independent.

    WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010

  • SARAJEVO - A former Al-Qaeda member and Bosnian mujahedin is seeking asylum in Serbia after being released from jail in Bosnia-Herzegovina, RFE / RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.

    Political Mavens 2009

  • I can't possibly see what it has to do with the South Slavic languages?!

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

  • March 13, 2009 PODGORICA -- Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska has declined a financial aid offer from Montenegro to keep the country's largest industrial plant in operation, RFE / RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

  • With a network of 150 journalists throughout the Balkans, distributed across six bureaus, the South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service has developed a unique model of regional and national broadcasting.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

  • With a network of 150 journalists throughout the Balkans, distributed across six bureaus, the South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service has developed a unique model of regional and national broadcasting.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

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