In Communist Yugoslavia, did people write the national language (Serbo-Croatian) in Latin or Cyrillic?
Like, when people wrote to each other or published newspapers, did they use the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet? I know that they spoke Serbo-Croat, but I'm not sure which alphabet they preferred to use.
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November 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
There was no national language of Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian was spoken by the majority of people in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, but the Slovenes, Macedonians, Kosovan Albanians, Vojvodinas and Montenegrins speak their own languages (Hungarian in the case of many in Vojvodina).
In Serbia and in the Serbian areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia they used the Cyrillic alphabet and in the non-Serb areas they used the Latin alphabet. Newspapers followed this, so there were Serb newspapers using Cyrillic and Croatian newspapers using Latin – although for a time the newspaper Borba published pages of alternate Latin / Cyrillic each with the same news.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borba_%28newspaper%29
November 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Cyrillic most of the time.