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            <li>SlavicNet <b>English-Serbian dictionary</b> contains about <b>230.000</b> entries. We keep adding new entries every day.
            <li>We hope to reach our goal of 300.000 words by the end of the year 2005. 
            <li>The SlavicNet English-Serbian-English dictionary consists of several dictionaries, which you search simultaneously by entering a search word.
            <li>The main English-Serbian dictionary is in <b>Štokavian dialect - Serbian ekavian variant</b> and consists of over 200.000 words from several sources.
            <li>Serbs in Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia speak <b>Štokavian dialect - Serbian ijekavian variant</b>. 
            <li>The founder of the modern Serbian language, Vuk Stefanovic - Karadzic
            <li>Karadzic propagated the idea <b>Štokavian dialect - Serbian ijekavian variant</b> shall be the official dialect of all Serbs. 
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          <li><b>Croats speak three dialects: Štokavian, Čakavian, and Kajkavian.</b>
          <li><b>Čakavian</b> had been dominant dialect in Croatian history, but in recent history <b>Štokavian</b> become dialect of their choice.
          <li><b>Serbs speak Štokavian dialect only.</b>
          <li><b>There are three variants of the Štokavian dialect</b> that stem from different reflex of proto-Slavic vowel jat.
          <li><b>Those variants are: ekavian, ijekavian and ikavian.</b>
          <li>The difference is the way proto-Slavic "<b>yat</b>" vowel is pronounced, ex. "dete" vs. "dijete" vs. "dite" - meaning "child".
          <li>This reminds me on American spelling-rules which omitted 'U' in words ending in 'OUR' (eg: color/colour, etc.)<br><br>
          <li><b>Serbs speak ekavian and ijekavian</b> variant; <b>Croats speak ijekavian and ikavian</b> variant of Štokavian dialect.
          <li>Croats have a problem with the fact they <b>share ijekavian</b> variant with Serbs.
          <li>Croatian ijekavian variant has <b>some, but not so much significant, differences</b> from Serbian ijekavian variant.<br><br>
          <li>Please, don't get confused with "extensive analysis" those languages on the web, like <b>WORDIQ</B> web site...
          <li>... The best way to compare two languages is to compare spelling in their dictionaries!
          <li>... I did the count, the differences will be soon published on the web site.
          <li>... Serbian and Croatian share over 80% words that have identical spelling.
          <li>... (that's why those two languages are commonly called Serbo-Croatian)
          <li>... Over 10% of the remaining words are variants of the same word (have the same root).
          <li>... Less than 10% words have different roots.
          <li>Similar results I have for British vs. American English Dictionary on the site.
          <li>My results will <b>"burn" Bosnian language</b>, too. <br><br>
          <li>Over <b>93% words</b> in <b>Serbian ekavian dialect</b> have identical spelling in <b>Serbian ijekavian dialect</b>.
          <li>Serbian alphabet is made by Vuk Stefanovic - Karadzic, the founder of Serbian modern language.<br><br>
          <li><b>Croatian Latin alphabet</b> is a Latin interpretation of the <b>Serbian Cyrillic alphabet</b>.
          <li>Both, Serbian and Croat alphabet, have <b>30 letters, which represent 30 identical sounds</b>.
          <li>Croats have 23 letters from English alphabet (all but <b>X</b>,<b>Y</b> and <b>W</b>).
          <li>Croats "borrowed" some letters from Czech (<b>è</b>,<b>ž</b>,<b>š</b>) and Polish (<b>æ</b>,<b>ð</b>,<b>dž</b>) alphabets. Each letter represents a single sound.
          <li>Croats also have two-letter combinations (<b>nj</b>,<b>lj</b>), each of them representing a single sound.
          <li>The last point is the reason why Croatian alphabet is a few steps far from perfection.
          <li>Serbian is the only language that has a single letter representation for "<b>nj</b>" and "<b>lj</b>" sounds.<br><br>
          <li>Serbian alphabet is the only perfect alphabet in the world, all sounds of the language are represented by a single letter.
          <li>The founder of the Serbian modern alphabet made a rule: "<b>Write as you speak, speak as you write</b>".     
          <li>Sadly, most Serbs in their daily lives use Croatian Latin alphabet, mainly because Cyrillic was suppressed during the Communist era.
          <li>Most Serbian and Croatian pages on the Internet are published in a quasi-alphabet which consist of only 23 English letters.
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             <li>In order to help Bosnians to create a language of their own, I collected over 17.000 words obsolete from Serbian language.
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