Search results for "Croatian language" - New World Encyclopedia

Andrić was born on October 9, 1892 of Croatian parentage in the village ... that, as a supporter of one Serbo-Croatian language, this was a change ...

Austria attempted Germanization of the Croatian homeland. During the Croatian ... from Lake Manduševac. Another tells of a Croatian ban who thrust his saber ...

Ragusa was one of the centers of Croatian language, literature, and scientific ... when as Ragusa, it was the center of Croatian language and literature. Once ...

John Milton's Paradise Lost into Serbo-Croatian. In 1958 he also ... Lost (from the original English to Serbo-Croatian), 1969 ...

*Vatican Croatian Prayer Book Vatican Croatian Prayer Book is the oldest Croatian vernacular prayer ...

Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... contributed by community members, with Croatian, English, French, German ...

the respondents' ethnicity, but only language (whether it was "native ... 217,072 Germans and 69,858 others (mainly Croatian and Hungarian) ...

as the Delmetae, who spoke an Illyrian language. King Bardyllis turned Illyria ... as their mother tongues. The Croatian language has three dialects ...

foreign troops: the Serbian army included Croatian ban Ivan Paližna with a ... with the creation of pure Serbian-Croatian borders." ...

What distinguished the three groups was language, religion, and national ... As a result, the Slovenian and Croatian delegates left the Congress ...

territorial claims especially involving Croatian and Serbian claims on Bosnia ... that it is a conjunction of two Serbo-Croatian words, ti (meaning "you ...

* Croatian Orthodox Church * Orthodox Church in Italy * Montenegrin Orthodox Church * Karamanli Turkish Orthodox Church ==References== ...

(basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...

Movement and gathered many prominent Croatian intellectuals and politicians ... particularly in language. The Serbo-Croatian language is linguistically a ...

Ancient Greek, Anglo-Saxon and Serbo-Croatian). Perhaps more importantly ... Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and the Serbo-Croatian Return-Song (1993); The ...

In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...

form grast is attested since 1177, and the Croatian kras since 1230. Karst topography is characterized by subterranean limestone caverns, carved ...

overcome their differences and agreed on a language compromise. ... due to the knowledge of the Hungarian language being a qualification for ...

German, Hungarian, Jewish, Czech, and Croatian nationals and cultural communities ... * 1843 – codification of Slovak language by Ludovit Stur and his ...

Language was one of the most contentious questions in Austro-Hungarian ... Hungary were forced to teach in Hungarian language only, burning Slovak books ...

Neretva canton, although enclosed within Croatian territory and territorial ... the dominant ideological conflict between Croatian regionalism and Serbian ...

and mortally wounding the leader of the Croatian Peasants Party, Stjepan ... control of Yugoslavia when German and Croatian separatist forces were defeated ...

Beijing Spring. It also partly influenced the Croatian Spring in Yugoslavia. Soviet forces had been stationed in Czechoslovakia since 1968 events ...

started to develop their own neo-Latin language, called Dalmatian language ... the Ottomans in the 1570s. The Venetian language was the lingua franca of ...

The most significant composer of operetta in the German language was ... The height of English-language operetta (at the time known in England ...

quaresma, French carême, Italian quaresima, Croatian korizma, Irish Carghas, and Welsh C(a)rawys). The main ceremony was the baptism of the initiates ...

Cyrillic and Glagolitic were used for the Church Slavonic language ... of old Church Slavonic to the written language of early Rus'" ...

others or unspecified were 12 percent. Regarding language, 91.1 percent spoke Slovenian, 4.5 percent Serbo-Croatian, and 4.4 percent spoke other or ...

the Adriatic Veneti, a people who spoke a language close to the Italic languages ... and retained their unique Slavic language and culture. Primož Trubar ...

among the oldest surviving writings in any language. Scholars debate ... poems are closely related in style and language as well as content. Both ...

Style" or, more rarely, "Croatian Style." The Slovenian style polka in the United States of America came about when immigrants ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...

of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ... controlled large parts of the Serbo-Croatian language area, engendering a ...

Serbs were given the land of Pagania between Croatian Dalmatia and Zachlumia in the first half of the seventh century. These Slavs revived the old ...

He spoke Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Latin, and later also German and Czech. rows=2 | before=Ladislaus Posthumus rows=1 | title=King of Hungary ...

The Serbian language is the official language. Other languages include Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian. Many are able to ...

Tesla was fluent in many languages. Along with Serbian/Croatian, he also spoke seven other foreign languages: Czech, English, French, German ...

tests for new citizens, to assure their language and cultural knowledge and ... The official language of Austria is German. Austria's mountainous ...

Portuguese, Polish, Irish, French, Croatian, English and Welsh. In the ... the international press. The English-language daily Buenos Aires Herald ...

both of which were of the Chibcha language family. The Muisca people ... numbers, Polish, Lithuanian, English, and Croatian communities) immigrated ...

Portuguese, Serb, Spanish, Lebanese, Croatian, and Ukrainian descent. ... be challenging for many students. When language barriers are combined with ...

the formal study of logic to rhetoric and language. Modern life is characterized ... # 1977 City As Classroom: Understanding Language and Media, with Kathryn ...

Stephen III, by which Béla was given the Croatian and Dalmatian territories ... Latin as the empire's official language and granted the peasants ...

(See also the article on ß.) In English-language typography and style conventions ... recently: The Center has put 92-year old Croatian Milivoj Asner on its 2005 ...

Stalin, not everyone viewed him favorably. The Croatian communist Ante Ciliga, who was in Russia in the 1920s, and backed Leon Trotsky against Stalin ...

However, the term was used more than six decades earlier by the Croatian ... love, spirituality, greed, language, the abilities to detect ...

with the development of symbolic culture, language, and specialized lithic ... of Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and ...

effort by the author to provide a language commonly used by most Italians. ... unification. The Irredentists took language as the test of the alleged ...

His name in English, Charlemagne, is identical to the French language from, which in turn comes from the Latin. The French translation of Charles ...

of the Castilian and the Venetian language for "The Greek", ... and, according to a letter written by the Croatian miniaturist, Giulio Clovio ...

the leader of the newly proclaimed Croatian state, rather than the diplomatic ... are not translated from their original language (mostly Italian) and the ...

meaning "destruction" in Hebrew language, became the standard Hebrew ... was also Jasenova in Croatia, run by the Croatian Ustashe collaborators. Camps ...