In Reply to: Re: Question posted by Sheridan on Thursday, May 8th 2008:

It is actually "Serbo-Croatian" named after the two main ethnic groups that made up Yugoslavia before it self-destructed. The two groups speak it the same way but write it differently. This area was a major fault line in the split between eastern and western Europe. the Croats, who live mostly in the west, facing Italy across the Adriatic sea, tend to be Roman Catholic, identify with western Europe and write the language with roman characters, like we write English). The Serbs. who live mostly in the east, tend to be Eastern Orthodox and write the same language with cyrillic characters (like Russian) and have always been close to the Russians.

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