Word: croatianly
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...foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...PENNYWHISTLERS: Folksongs of Eastern Europe (Nonesuch). For those who like their folk music ethnic, a group of seven American girls offers a pastiche of infrequently heard items from the banks of the Danube: Bulgarian planting songs, Hungarian love lyrics, Croatian hymns. Many of them are sung a capella-sustained by the septet's own strong harmony...
...census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running...
...trial, Mihajlov proved a difficult man to cow. Appearing in a courtroom whose only ornament was a large portrait of Tito, he pleaded not guilty before a three-judge tribunal. He even scored a pre-trial victory when the Croatian Supreme Court sustained his petition to have one of the judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...
...severe disadvantage. Perhaps he is doing independent work, connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian, his major, all day and all night...