Languages of Croatia
Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.
Population: 4,481,000
(1998 UN). Literacy rate 97%.
National or official languages:
Also includes
Sinte Romani, Slovenian. Information mainly from B. Comrie 1987. Data accuracy
estimate: B. The number of languages listed for Croatia is 6. Of those,
5 are living languages and 1 is extinct. Diversity index 0.07.
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Spoken Living Languages
| Name |
Alternate Names |
Description |
Classification |
Dialects |
| CROATIAN |
HRVATSKI |
[SRC] 4,800,000 in Croatia (1995). More
information. |
Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western. |
KAYKAVSKI
CHAKAVSKI
SHTOKAVSKI (IJEKAVSKI) (1)
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ISTRIOT |
- |
[IST] 1,000 or fewer (1994 Tapani Salminen).
Western
coast of Istrian Peninsula, now only in the towns of Rovinj (Rovigno) and
Vodnjan (Dignano).
More information. |
Indo-European, Italic, Romance,
Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian. |
(various) |
| ITALIAN |
- |
[ITN] 70,000 in Croatia whose mother tongue is Italian
or Venetian, including 30,000 ethnic Italian and 40,000 ethnic Croats and
Istrian people (1998 Eugen Marinov). Istria.More
information. |
Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian. |
- |
| ROMANIAN, ISTRO |
ISTRO-ROMANIAN |
[RUO] 555 to 1,500 (1994 T. Salminen). Northeast
Istrian Peninsula, Zejane village and a few villages to the south.More
information. |
Indo-European,
Italic, Romance, Eastern. |
(various, all but two are not
currently recognized) |
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VENETIAN |
- |
[VEC] 100,000 in Croatia and Slovenia (1994 Tapani Salminen).
See also Italian in Croatia. Istrian Peninsula and Dalmatia. |
Indo-European,
Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance,
Gallo-Italian. |
ISTRIAN and ISTRO-VENETIAN
(2)
TRENTINE
VENETIAN PROPER |
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