Croatian is a South-Slavic language from the Indo-European language family. In Croatia the language is spoken by approximately 4 million people. Croatian is an official language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro. Furthermore it is an official language in the region of Burgenland in Austria, in the region of Vojvodina in Serbia and in some regions in Hungary.The Croatian language can be divided into three main dialects: Kajkavian (northern Croatia, region around Zagreb), Chakavian (Istria, Dalmatic Coast, Adriatic Islands) and Shtokavian (central and southern Croatia, western Bosnia and Herzegovina). Standard Croatian is based, just like Serbian and Bosnian, on a Shtokavian dialect.Burgenland Croatian is a regional language variety (the standard form of which is mainly based on Chakavian). Also Molise-Croatian is different and based on Shtokavian dialect that came to Italy many centuries ago and that was strongly influenced by the Italian dialects that it was surrounded by.
Hello - zdravo
Cheers - Živjeli! Nazdravlje!
You are not alone - TI NISI SAM
Croatian is written in the Latin alphabet and has some special additional letters such as: Č, Ć, DŽ, Đ, Š, Ž.
Burgenland Croats in Slovakia (1.000 Speaker)
Croats / Burgenland Croats in Hungary (90.000 Speaker)
Croats in Romania (6.800 Speaker)
Croats in Italy (2.600 Speaker)
Burgenland Croats in Austria (42.000 Speaker)
Croats in Serbia (57.900 Speaker)
Croats in Slovenia (54.000 Speaker)
Croats in Czech Republic (1.585 Speaker)
Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina (511.000 Speaker)
Croats in Montenegro (6.021 Speaker)
Croatia (3.977.000 Speaker)