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About Croatian Language

Croatian falls into the South Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language group. After the split-up of Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, the regular language of Serbs, Croats, Bosnian and Montenegrin, was officially divided into three mutually understandable languages: Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian: Although the term "Serbo-Croatian" was abolished with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, it remains due to its historical, cultural and political association and the lack of accuracy in defining the term “language” is controversial. In other words, these three languages are largely artefacts of political decisions rather than linguistic ones.
The eastern part of Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia, Montenegro and parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, were religiously and culturally different from the western part of the country, i.e. Croatia and other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia was part of the Ottoman kingdom, while Croatia was under the Austro-Hungarian government. Therefore, Serbian and Croatian are dependent on different dialects and are written with different letters. In the 19th century, Serbian and Croatian became a single language as part of an effort to create a separate South Slavic state (yug means "south").
Although Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian are different in several respects, this differentiation does not hinder mutual intelligibility and is in fact not as significant as the dialect differences within the languages themselves. This is not amazing; given the uninterrupted migration of the Slavic population in the time of the five hundred years of Turkish rule spawned a mosaic of local dialects that crossed newer national borders.

The Rank of the Croatian Language

Standard Croatian language is used as the official language of Croatia. Around 4.8 million people speak the Standard Croatian language in Croatia in all sections of the public as well as in private life. It is also spoken in Bosnia, Austria, and Germany, Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, United States, Canada and Australia. Ethnologue assumes that around 4 million people in the world speak Croatian in Croatia and 5.5 million in total in the world.
In 1967, Croatian writers and academics issued the manifesto on the Name and rank of the Literary Language and suggested the vast use of Croatian in public life. In 1974, the Yugoslav legislature allowed each republic to regulate its own official language. In Yugoslavia, Croatia played an important role in developing Croatia's identity as an independent state in the 1990s.

Dialects of the Croatian Language

The dialect picture of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian is quite complex and is shared by all three languages. The major dialectal difference is based on the pronunciation of the initial consonant in the word. Today the Croatian language spoken in the country is known to the locals as Hrvatski, which includes 3 dialects; Shtokavian, Kajkavian, and Chakavian.
Shtokavian is spoken in Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro Serbia, Bosnia and in the southern part of Austria. The main subdivisions of Shtokavian are dependent on two principles: On the one hand, whether the subdialect is Altschtokavian or Neo-Shtokavian and different accents depending on the form of the Old Slavic phoneme Jat, has changed. Linguists differentiate seven Shtokavian subdialects.

Stress of the Croatian Language

Croatian has a tonal accentuation. Monosyllabic words always have a descending tone. Words with two or more syllables can also have a descending tone, but (except for foreign loanwords and interjections) only on the first syllable, an ascending tone, in every syllable except the last. The last syllable is never stressed. Some borrowed words may not have standard stress.

Writing System of the Croatian Language

The original letters used by both Serbs and Croats were the Glagolitic; It was created in the 9th century by the monks Cyril and Method for Old Church Slavonic, the ritual language of that time. Glagolitic was replaced in the Orthodox areas of Serbia and Bosnia by Cyrillic letters in the twelfth century.
The Cyrillic letters were improved by academics in the 19th century to provide greater communication between sounds and letters, and between symbols in the Cyrillic and Latin letters. In the 19th century, the Cyrillic letters were revised by Vuk Karadžić. The Croatian Latin letters were revised quite soon afterwards by Ljudevit Gaj, who added five additional symbols to the standard Latin letters by borrowing letters from Czech and Polish and inventing the dž, lj and nj. The two letters go together quite well.

Grammar of the Croatian Language

Croatian grammar is the same in complexity as the grammar of almost all other Slavic languages.

Word sequence of the Croatian Language

The impartial word sequence in the Croatian language is Subject-Verb-Object; however, other sequences may be used as the inflected endings are responsible for clearly indicating grammatical relationships and roles in the sentence and focus (new information). Constituents with old information come before constituents with new information or more stress.

Vocabulary of the Croatian Language

The differences between Croatian on one side and Serbian and Bosnian on another side are mainly vocabulary, although most of the words arrive from a common Slavic lineage. Croatian has retained maximum words of the native Slavic words, while Serbian, measurably, Bosnian, has been adopted more words by Russian and Western European languages. For example, while Serbian and Bosnian have adopted names from Western European languages, Croatian naturally uses Slavic words, e.g. Serbian / Bosnian April and Croatian Travanj, Serbian / Bosnian Oktobar and Croatian Listopad, literally 'leaf fall'.
We have put together a list of the most commonly used words and phrases that are scattered around Croatian slang, and more importantly, what to order if you are looking for some well-deserved drinks!

Below are some common English words and phrases and its translation in Croatian language with pronunciation.

Hello [translation in Croatian language] Bok [pronounce like] bohk
How are you? [translation in Croatian language] Kako ste? [pronounce like] kah-koh steh?
I’m fine, thank you [translation in Croatian language] Ja sam dobro, hvala [pronounce like] yah sahm doh-broh, hva-lah
Nice to meet you [translation in Croatian language] Drago mi je [pronounce like] dra-goh mee yeh
Good morning [translation in Croatian language] Dobro jutro [pronounce like] doh-broh you-troh
Good afternoon [translation in Croatian language] Dobar dan [pronounce like] doh-bahr dahn
Good evening [translation in Croatian language] Dobra večer [pronounce like] doh-brah ve-cher
Goodbye [translation in Croatian language] Doviđenja [pronounce like] doh-vee-jen-yah
Please [translation in Croatian language] Molim [pronounce like] moh-leem
Thank you [translation in Croatian language] Hvala [pronounce like] hva-lah
Yes [translation in Croatian language] Da [pronounce like] da
No [translation in Croatian language] Ne [pronounce like] ne
Excuse me [translation in Croatian language] Oprostite [pronounce like] oh-pro-sti-teh
What is your name? [translation in Croatian language] Kako se zovete? [pronounce like] kak-koh seh zoh-ve-teh
My name is … [translation in Croatian language] Zovem se [pronounce like] zoh-vhem se
Do you speak English? [translation in Croatian language] Govorite li engleski? [pronounce like] goh-voh-ree-teh lee en-glees-kee
What time is it? [translation in Croatian language] Koliko je sati? [pronounce like] KOH-lee-koh yeh sahtee?
How much is this? [translation in Croatian language] Koliko ovo košta? [pronounce like] KOH-lee-koh oh-voh koh-shtah?
Where can I exchange money? [translation in Croatian language] Gdje mogu razmijeniti novac? [pronounce like] Gdyeh MOH-goo rahz-MEE-yeh-nee-tee NOH-vahts?
Here’s my passport [translation in Croatian language] Ovdje je moja putovnica [pronounce like] OH-vdyeh yeh mo-ya POO-toh-vnee-tsa
A beer/coffee/tea, please [translation in Croatian language] Pivo/kavu/čaj, molim [pronounce like] PEE-voh/KAH-voo/CH-ay MOH-leem

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