This study deals with the development of the linguistic geography
as a branch of dialectology in general with the special survey of Serbo-
Croatian conditions. Although much research work has been done
in the Serbo-Croatian language area in the field of dialectology for
the last century and more, it is only in the period after the Second
World War that this question has seriously been taken up. The General
Slavonic Linguistic Atlas and many dialectologists from the Serbro-
Croatian language area taking part in it are to merit praise for
this project in the Serbo-Croatian language area. The results shown
by the dialectological atlases could be used, to a great extent, in history
and dialectology, as well as in the standard Serbo-Croatian language
