Its modern history stretches back hundreds of years and is intertwined with the history of neighboring Balkan states.
The Croatian language is an integral part of Croatian national identity. The Croatian language discussion archives on Wikipedia alone are only the tip of the iceberg. The Croatian Language and Its Balkan Neighborsĭig into the linguistic classification of Croatian, and its relationship to other Balkan languages - especially Serbian - and you’ll find yourself in a morass of multifaceted, passionate disputes. Yet, even after hundreds of years of divergence from a common root, the connection is still there. Russian is an East Slavic language and Croatian is South Slavic. For example, in this experiment, a native Croatian speaker and a native Russian speaker tried to guess the meaning of words from their respective languages … with a fairly high degree of accuracy. This is not too surprising since there are about as many Croatians living outside of their homeland as there are within its borders.Ĭroatian bears a strong resemblance to other Slavic languages - even ones from different branches of the Slavic language tree. In addition to several countries and territories in Eastern Europe, it’s also spoken in South America, Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Australia. Thanks to the second wave of the Croatian Diaspora, Croatian has minority language status in the following places:
Burgenland, a sparsely populated state in Austria.Vojvodina, an autonomous province in northern Serbia.Croatian is one of the official languages of the European Union, with about five to seven million speakers worldwide. The Croatian language, known as hrvatski, is tied to the Croat ethnic group, who hail from the South Slavic countries. It’s the most-used dialect of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language. It comes from the Eastern-Herzegovinian dialect, called Shtokavian (a/k/a Štokavian or Stokavian). A Little about the Croatian LanguageĬroatian is a standardized form of Serbo-Croatian. Or was the Croatian language really born after the breakup of Yugoslavia? When did the Croatian language begin? Was it during the Bronze Age, as the future fruit of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages tree?
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