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Croatian

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Croatian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Croats, and is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
hrv 1
Speaker Count
5,100,000 1
2021-2023 estimate, native speakers (1.3 million second-language speakers, 2012).
Status
Living 1
Region
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary (Bácska), Montenegro (Bay of Kotor), Romania (Caraș-Severin County), Serbia (Vojvodina) 1
Partially Attested
Attested From (Year)
from 1100 2
Approximate date, c. 1100 AD; the Baška tablet is one of the first monuments and is in the Croatian recension of Church Slavonic.
Classification
Official Status
Official Language 1
Connections

In Family

South Slavic, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Croatian Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Croatian Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Croatian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Croats. It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    hrv
  • Infobox, Speakers (Total)
    L1: 5.1 million (2021-2023)
  • Lead section, second sentence
    It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia, one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Serbian province of Vojvodina, the European Union and a recognized minority language elsewhere in Serbia and other neighbouring countries.
  • Infobox, Native to
    Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary (Bácska), Montenegro (Bay of Kotor), Romania (Caraș-Severin County), Serbia (Vojvodina)
  • Official status, Croatian entity page
    Croatian is the standard variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Croats, and is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia.
  • In Family: South Slavic, Infobox, Language family
    Top family: Indo-European; immediate branch: South Slavic languages (Western South Slavic), within Serbo-Croatian.
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2. Wikipedia: Baška Tablet
Lead section
Quote, Lead section
is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian recension of Church Slavonic, dating from c. 1100 AD.
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