Croatian
South Slavic language spoken in Croatia
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Summary
Croatian is a pluricentric language variant[1]. Croatian draws 12,548 Wikipedia views per month (pluricentric language variant category, ranking #2 of 2).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Croatia[3], Bosnia and Herzegovina[4], Serbia[5], Montenegro[6], Austria[7], Hungary[8], Italy[9], Romania[10], Slovakia[11], Slovenia[12], Czech Republic[13]
- Instance of: standard variety[14], modern language[15]
- Subclass of: Eastern Herzegovinian[16], Serbo-Croatian[17]
- Writing system: Gaj's Latin alphabet[18], Glagolitic[19]
- Commons category: Croatian language[20]
- Wikimedia language code: hr[21]
- Said to be the same as: Serbo-Croatian[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Croatian language[23]
- Language regulatory body: Institute of Croatian Language[24]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 7,000,000[25]
- Heritage designation: Register of Cultural Goods of Croatia[26]
- Native label: hrvatski jezik[27], hrvatski[28]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153950[29]
- Short name: хорватский[30], хорватська[31], харвацкая[32], хърватски[33], хорватаг[34], Харвѧцскїъ[35], Ⱈⰰⱂⰲⱙⱌⰽⰺⰵ[36], croata[37], хорватӣ[38]
- Indigenous to: Burgenland[39], Lower Austria[40], Vienna[41], Croatia[42], Montenegro[43]
- Female form of label: la langue croate[44]
- Studied by: Croatian studies[45]
- Exact match: https://afbo.info/languages/67[46]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[47], genitive case[48], dative case[49], accusative case[50], vocative case[51], locative case[52], instrumental case[53]
- Has tense: present tense[54], past tense[55]
Why It Matters
Croatian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] Croatian is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]