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LANGUAGES IN CROATIA
Official language
The official language in Croatia is Croatian Official languages in Istria is Croatian and
Italian Croatian is native language to 96% of
population
Croatian dictionary Croatian and Italian language in Istria
Other languages in Croatia
Languages of immigrants: Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Czech Hebrew Hungarian Macedonian German Polish
Romanian Russian Slovak Slovenian Serbian Italian Turkish Ukrainian etc.
Dialects
There are three dialects in Croatian language: Shtokavian Chakavian Kajkavian
Standard and literary Croatian is based on the central dialect, Shtokavian
History of Croatian language
Baška tablet , Island Krk
ca. 1100
Glagolitic Missal of Duke Novak, 1368
Vatican Croatian Prayer Book, ca. 1400
Hrvoje's Missal, 1404
A page from the "Istrian land survey" of 1526
The Vinodol Codex, 1288
Movie about the history of the Croatian language
Croatian grammar
Seven cases: Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative Locative Instrument
al Vocative
Ten kinds of words: Nouns Verbs Adjectives Pronouns Numerals Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Particles Exclamations
Seven tenses: The Past
Perfect Aorist Imperfect Pluperfect
The Present Present
The Future Future I Future II
Croatian alphabet
30 letters The Croatian Latin was
mostly designed by Ljudevit Gaj
Linguists deal with alphabet area and study spelling
Croatian linguist and reformer Croatian alphabet Ljudevit Gaj
Foreign words
from the: Latin German Italian Russian Hungarian Turkish Czech French
more recently a major blow to the Croatian language is by English (“frend”, “shopping”, “huligan” etc.)
some foreign words are “bistro”, “baština”, “alkohol”, “alat”, “kula”, “jorgan” etc.
Croatian literature
compilation of novels, dramas, short stories and poems
periods in the literature: Medieval period Renaissance Baroque Classicism and
Enlightenment Romanticism Protorealism Realism Modernism 20th century Month of Croatian book
Interesting facts
The longest word in Croatian language is “prijestolonasljednikovica”. Its longest form is “prijestolonasljednikovičičinima”
The shortest words are a (and, but), u (in), i (and), o (about), k (to), s (with)
Croatian is ranked 95th by the number of speakers
About 7 million people speak Croatian Science that deals with the Croatian
language is called the Croatistics
Authors:
Katarina Krešo Nikolina Novaković
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