Slavonic vs Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian vs Slavonic

Slavonic and Serbo-Croatian both are nouns.

Slavonic is an adjective but Serbo-Croatian is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Slavonic	Yes	Yes	No	No
Serbo-Croatian	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Serbo-Croatian is a hyponym of Slavonic; that is, Serbo-Croatian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Slavonic:

Slavonic: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
Serbo-Croatian: the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet

Other hyponyms of Slavonic include Church Slavic, Church Slavic language, Old Bulgarian, Old Bulgarian language, Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic language, Russian, Russian language, Belarusian, Belarusian language, Byelorussian, Byelorussian language, White Russian, White Russian language, Ukrainian, Ukrainian language, Polish, Polish language, Slovak, Slovak language, Czech, Czech language, Slovene, Slovene language, Serbo-Croat, Lusatian, Lusatian language, Sorbian, Sorbian language, Macedonian, Macedonian language, Bulgarian, Bulgarian language.

Slavonic (noun)	Serbo-Croatian (noun)
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages	the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet

Slavonic (adjective)	Serbo-Croatian (adjective)
of or relating to Slavic languages

Difference between Slavonic and Serbo-Croatian

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