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.

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. > >