Comments on: In Communist Yugoslavia, did people write the national language (Serbo-Croatian) in Latin or Cyrillic? http://language-latin.com/in-communist-yugoslavia-did-people-write-the-national-language-serbo-croatian-in-latin-or-cyrillic.html Find out about the language of Latin online. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:13:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Spellbound http://language-latin.com/in-communist-yugoslavia-did-people-write-the-national-language-serbo-croatian-in-latin-or-cyrillic.html/comment-page-1#comment-1383 Spellbound Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:54 +0000 http://language-latin.com/in-communist-yugoslavia-did-people-write-the-national-language-serbo-croatian-in-latin-or-cyrillic.html#comment-1383 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 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

]]> By: Vera http://language-latin.com/in-communist-yugoslavia-did-people-write-the-national-language-serbo-croatian-in-latin-or-cyrillic.html/comment-page-1#comment-1384 Vera Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:54 +0000 http://language-latin.com/in-communist-yugoslavia-did-people-write-the-national-language-serbo-croatian-in-latin-or-cyrillic.html#comment-1384 Cyrillic most of the time. Cyrillic most of the time.

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