"There have already been stories about this auction in Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Chinese and Japanese!"

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Many Macedonians and Slovenes still speak or understand what used to be called Serbo-Croat as a second language.

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L'ouvrage en anglais est en cours de traduction en albanais et en serbo-croate.

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He has been an avid follower of the Balkan imbroglio for a good decade (and has even been learning Serbo-Croat).

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Roosevelt's Census Proclamation, urging Americans to participate, was translated into 23 languages, including Slovak, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Dutch, Hebrew, Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

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The messages are written in Serbo-Croat, according to the officials.

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At 81, the amiable Mr. Strachwitz, whose family relocated to the U.S. West Coast in 1947, recalls falling first for early jazz when seeing the Louis Armstrong-Billie Holliday film "New Orleans" as a teenager, then hearing everything from hardcore hillbilly to "Harlem Matinee" and the Serbo-Croatian hour on Los Angeles-area radio.

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