on 5/27/02 11:06 PM, Tania & John Mahoney at whswan@ihug.co.nz wrote: > There was a language known as Serbo-Croatian and I have a dictionary and > lessons from as it as I was learning it at a high school evening class. > However it was really a mix of the two and I am not sure if it is a language > used when the different groups came together and created a mix of their > languages another "dialect" so to speak. It is definetly not used since the > break up of the country (any mention of it where my family a from would be > extremely frowned upon.) and all of the records I have seen in the past were > either Croatian or Italian. (My family are from the Island of Korcula) Also > the ones my cousin has been using from Vrgorac and other croatian villages > inland are all written in Croatian also. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Kurchina" <frankur@worldnet.att.net> > To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:44 AM > Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] dictionaries > > >> >> >> Mary Hegarty wrote: >>> >>> I ordered a Croatian dictionary from the book store and when I got it I >>> realized it was very skimpy and meant for tourists. I also noticed that > the >>> records at the LDS are in Serbo-Croatian. Should I order a > Serbo-Croatian >>> dictionary? What is the difference between Croatian and Serbo-Croatian? >>> Thanks! >>> Mary Hegarty >> >> To the best of my knowledge the LDS microfilms may state Serbo-Croatian >> language, but if Roman Catholic, the records are written in Croatian and >> if Serbian Orthodox, the records are written in Serbian Cyrillic. >> Thousands of words in Croatian and Serbian are spelled differently, >> pronounced differently and have different meanings. >> Academia claims there is a Serbo-Croatian language, but Serbian and >> Croatian are two separate languages. >> >> Thanks for all this information. Sorry that I don't know some of the basics. I only found out about my mother's Croatian heritage a few months ago. She died in 1985 and never knew. She wasn't rasied by her parents. In fact when I went to the web site where you can hear Croatian words I realized it was the first time I've ever heard Croatian. That made me wonder are there any Croatian movies? Mary H.