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Željko Bujas (16 February 1928 – 16 March 1999) was a Croatian linguist, Anglicist, Americanist and lexicographer. [1] He was born in Pag. In 1952 he received a degree in English language and literature, and Russian. In 1954 he became assistant in the English language at Department of English studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
Croatia ( / kroʊˈeɪʃə / ⓘ, kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska, pronounced [xř̩ʋaːtskaː] ), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska listen ⓘ ), [ d] is a country in Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Croatian Littoral ( Croatian: Hrvatsko primorje) is a historical name for the region of Croatia comprising mostly the coastal areas between traditional Dalmatia to the south, Mountainous Croatia to the north, Istria and the Kvarner Gulf of the Adriatic Sea to the west. The term "Croatian Littoral " developed in the 18th and 19th centuries ...
Official status. Areas with an ethnic Croatian majority (as of 2006) Standard Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia [ 53] and, along with Standard Bosnian and Standard Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ 2] It is also official in the regions of Burgenland (Austria), [ 54] Molise (Italy ...
Zagreb ( / ˈzɑːɡrɛb / ZAH-greb[ 7] Croatian: [zǎːɡreb] ⓘ [ a]) [ 9] is the capital and largest city of Croatia. [ 10] It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately 158 ...
More than 80,000 words on 4,600 pages, excerpted from 120 authors). 1842 – Ivan Mažuranić and Josip Užarević, Njemačko—ilirski slovar (A German–Illyrian dictionary. First "truly modern" Croatian dictionary). 1874–75 – Bogoslav Šulek, Hrvatsko-njemačko-talijanski rječnik znanstvenog nazivlja (Croatian–German–Italian ...
Hrvatsko Zagorje lies to the north of the Croatian capital city: Zagreb. Other major cities include the world-famous archeological site of Krapina and the baroque town of Varaždin . Its northern border is the Republic of Slovenia and the regions of Podravina and Međimurje , to the east lies Slavonia and to the west lies Kordun and Gorski Kotar.
Dialects of Serbo-Croatian. Shtokavian subdialects (Pavle Ivić, 1988). Yellow is the widespread Eastern Herzegovinian subdialect that forms the basis of all national standards, though it is not spoken natively in any of the capital cities. The dialects of Serbo-Croatian include the vernacular forms and standardized sub-dialect forms of Serbo ...