Croatian

Indo-European (Slavic)7 million totalLatin

RegionCroatia/Bosnia

FamilyIndo-European (Slavic)

Speakers7 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Croatian

The official language of Croatia. Its Latin alphabet gained special Slavic letters in the 1830s. Mutually intelligible with Serbian and Bosnian while keeping distinct vocabulary. Standards grew from a 19th century agreement in Vienna. Croatia ranks among the most multilingual countries in Europe.

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