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Croatian is a South Slavic language used primarily in Croatia, by Croats living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighboring countries where Croats make up autochthonous communities, and parts of the Croatian diaspora. It is sometimes classified as belonging to the Central South Slavic diasystem (also referred to as "Serbo-Croatian").



The modern Croatian standard language is a continuous outgrowth of more than nine hundred years of literature written in a mixture of Croatian Church Slavonic and the vernacular language. Croatian Church Slavonic was abandoned by the mid-15th century, and Croatian as embodied in a purely vernacular literature (Croatian literature) has existed for more than five centuries.

• Spoken by 4,800,000 native speakers and approx. 6.5 million people around the world
  


• Croatian is an official language in Croatia
  


• Three-letter code: HRV

The Croatian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with special characters ć, č, đ, š, ž, dž; it does not have q, w, x, y

Alphabet:
A B C Č D Dž Đ E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S Š T U V Z Ž
a b c č d dž đ e f g h i j k l lj m n nj o p r s š t u v z ž