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The Serbian name for Christmas is Božić (Serbian Cyrillic: Божић, pronounced [ˈbǒʒitɕ]), which is the diminutive form of the word bog ("god"), and can be translated as "young god". Christmas is celebrated for three consecutive days, starting with Christmas Day, which the Serbs call the first day of Christmas.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Serbo-Croatian (the Croatian and Serbian standards thereof) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
They also pronounce most unstressed long vowels as short, with some exceptions, such as genitive plural endings. [17] Several Southern Serbian dialects, notably the dialect of Niš , lack vowel length and pitch accent, instead using a stress-based system, as well as differing from the standard language in stress placement.
The Russian pronunciation is the same as е [je] ~ [ʲe] whereas the Ukrainian is the same as и [i]. Greek Catholic variants of Church Slavonic books printed in variants of the Latin alphabet (a method used in Austro-Hungary and Czechoslovakia) just contain the letter "i" for yat.
A česnica (Serbian Cyrillic: чесница, Serbian pronunciation: [tʃěːsnit͜sa]; derived from the noun čest, meaning "share"), also called Božićna pogača (Serbian Cyrillic: Божићна погача, "Christmas pogača") is the ceremonial, round loaf of bread that is an indispensable part of Christmas dinner in Serbian tradition. 1 The preparation of this bread may be accompanied ...
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Serbian Orthodox Christians: Date Name Serbian name Serbian name Remarks varies: Krsna slava: Крсна слава: Krsna slava: Family patron saint Western Christians & Revised Julian calendar Eastern Orthodox Christians: Date Name Serbian name Serbian name Remarks December 25: Christmas Day: Божић: Božić: Western Christians