Language History
Croatian belongs to the South Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Its history roots back to the breakup of Yugoslavia when the language, Serbo-Croatian (spoken among Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins) split into three mutually intelligible languages — Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian. These languages were formed on the basis of political reasons, rather than linguistic reasons.
Serbia became part of the Ottoman empire, while Croatia was under Austro-Hungarian rule, and eventually their languages evolved into different dialects and alphabets. In the 19th century, however, Serbian and Croatian became one language when there were efforts to create an independent South Slavic state. After gaining independence in 1991, Croatia reformed Croatian to separate it from Serbian.
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[/vc_pangea_custom_block][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”benefits-container” css=”.vc_custom_1621797341657{margin-top: px !important;background-color: #f1f2f0 !important;}” el_class=”bg-grey”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1606983843570{margin-top: 24px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_pangea_custom_block layout=”center” background_color=”” content_font=”Futura Std” css_custom_id=”text-near-bubble” title=”Fact” background_image=”5847″]The differences between Croatian and Serbian and Bosnian are mostly lexical. They are still mutual intelligible though as they all share a common sound system and grammar. Croatian has preserved more native Slavic words, while Serbian has borrowed more from Russian and Western European languages.[/vc_pangea_custom_block][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1606984448055{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-left: -30px !important;}”][vc_pangea_custom_block layout=”center” background_color=”” content_font=”Futura Std” css_custom_id=”text-near-bubble” title=”Did you Know?” background_image=”5847″]Croatian used to be written in three different alphabets – Cyrillic, Glagolitic and Latin. As of the 19th century, Croatian used Gaj’s Latin alphabet. Although similar to the English alphabet, it has the following additional letters – č, ć, dž, đ, lj, nj š and ž and doesn’t have the letters – q, w, x and y.[/vc_pangea_custom_block][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1621797358542{background-color: #f1f2f0 !important;}” el_class=”bg-grey”][vc_column][vc_pangea_quote_block quote_text=”“Croatian is a phonetic language. If you learn to pronounce the letters, you can sound out any word.” (adventuresinfluency.com)”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1575284008104{margin-top: 50px !important;border-top-width: -50px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1606982618851{margin-top: -100px !important;margin-bottom: -20px !important;}”][vc_pangea_custom_block layout=”center” title=”4 Easy Phrases in Croatian! “][/vc_pangea_custom_block][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1591275004105{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1606982578236{margin-top: -50px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_wp_text title=” “]
| Croatian English | Croatian English |
|---|---|
| Bok Hello | Bok Hello |
| Drago mi je Nice to meet you | Drago mi je Nice to meet you |
| Drago mi je Nice to meet you | Oprostite Excuse me |
| Kako si? How are you? | Kako si? How are you? |
Croatia Population:
4,105,267
Internet Users:
3,787,838
Penetration:
92.3%
As of 2020. Source:
www.internetworldstats.com
These include:
• Shtokavian
• Chakavian
• Kajkavian
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• The number forms include singular, plural, with some vestiges of dual.
• Verbs in Croatian have three persons – first, second, third.
• Croatian is a pro-drop language – personal pronouns can be dropped as the verb
ending makes the person clear.
• The neutral word order in Croatian is Subject-Verb-Object but other orders are possible.
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