What is Serbo-Croatian?
{{Infobox language | name = Serbo-Croatian | familycolor = Indo-European | nativename = srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски | states = [[Serbia]] [[Croatia]] [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [[Montenegro]] [[Kosovo]] (existence disputed) | speakers = 18 million | fam1 = [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] | fam2 = [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] | fam3 = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Slavic%20languages South Slavic] | ancestor = [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] | ancestor2 = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language Proto-Slavic] | ancestor3 = Proto-South Slavic | dialects = Shtokavian Torlakian Chakavian Kajkavian | stand1 = [[Serbian language|Serbian]] | stand2 = [[Croatian language|Croatian]] | stand3 = [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] | stand4 = [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]] | script = [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] [[Latin script|Latin]] [[Glagolitic alphabet|Glagolitic]] (9th century) [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] (16th century bosnian) | nation = [[Serbia]] [[Croatia]] [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [[Montenegro]] [[European Union]] | minority = [[Austria]] [[Hungary]] [[Italy]] [[Romania]] [[Slovakia]] [[Czech Republic|Czechia]] [[North Macedonia]] | iso1 = sh | iso2 = hbs }} [[File:Serbo croatian language2005.png|thumb|Serbo-Croatian language on the [[Balkans|Balkan]] peninsula, in 2005]] [[File:Shtokavian subdialects1988 incl Slovenia.png|thumb|Different dialects]] [[File:Dalj Street sign.JPG|thumb|Street sign in Dalj, Croatia, showing road names in Latin and Cyrillic]] '''Serbo-Croatian''' is the name of a [[South Slavic language]], which is spoken in modern-day [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and [[Montenegro]]. After the breakup of [[Yugoslavia]], it has been divided into four variants. The variants of this language are all based on a single dialect