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Aorist (/ ˈ eɪ ə r ɪ s t / AY-ər-ist; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek grammar had the aorist form, and the grammars of other Indo-European languages and languages influenced by the Indo-European grammatical tradition, such as Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Armenian, the South Slavic languages ...
Serbo-Croatian is a pro-drop language with flexible word order, subject–verb–object being the default. It can be written in either localized variants of Latin ( Gaj's Latin alphabet, Montenegrin Latin) or Cyrillic ( Serbian Cyrillic, Montenegrin Cyrillic ), and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.
Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language that, like most other Slavic languages, has an extensive system of inflection.This article describes exclusively the grammar of the Shtokavian dialect, which is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum [1] and the basis for the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian standard variants of Serbo-Croatian. [2] "
The Institute for the Croatian Language ( Croatian: Institut za hrvatski jezik, IHJ), formerly known as the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics until 2023, [ 1] is a state-run linguistics institute in Croatia whose purpose is to "preserve and foster" the Croatian language. It traces its history back to 1948, when it was part of ...
linguist, philologist. Notable works. Grammatica della lingua serbo-croata (illyrica). Pero Budmani ( Serbian Cyrillic: Перо Будмани, pronounced [pěro budmâːni]; 27 October 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Croatian Serb writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot .
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 ...
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 ...
v. t. e. Ancient Greek verbs have four moods ( indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative ), three voices ( active, middle and passive ), as well as three persons (first, second and third) and three numbers (singular, dual and plural). In the indicative mood there are seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of ...