Croatian language

South Slavic language spoken in Croatia

The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (, , , , ). It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase ž is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. In addition, ž is used as the romanisation of Cyrillic ж in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration.

The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant like the English ch in the word chocolate. The caron is known as háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak, kvačica in Serbo-Croatian, and strešica in Slovene. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).

class=skin-invert-image|right|thumb|Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative or similar voiceless retroflex fricative . In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with ʃ or ʂ, but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents the same sound as the Turkic letter Ş and the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter ש, th

form of the Latin script used for Serbo-Croatian and with some modifications for Montenegrin and Slovene languages

subdialect

Kajkavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.

Chakavian or Čakavian (, , , proper name: or own name: čokovski, čakavski, čekavski) is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian Littoral and parts of coastal and southern Central Croatia (now collectively referred to as Adriatic Croatia or Littoral Croatia), as well as by the Burgenland Croats as Burgenland Croatian in southeastern Austria, northwestern Hungary and southwestern Slovakia as well as few municipalities in southern Slovenia on the border with Croatia.

thumb|The handbook Bosnian Book of the Science of Conduct, published in 1831 by the Bosnian author and poet Abdulvehab Ilhamija, is printed in Arebica. Arebica (; ) is a variant of the Perso-Arabic script used to write the Serbo-Croatian language. It was used mainly between the 16th and 20th centuries and is frequently categorized as part of Aljamiado literature. During Austro-Hungarian rule, there were unsuccessful efforts by Bosnian Muslims to grant Arebica equal status alongside Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.

thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian Slavomolisano, also known as Molise Slavic or Molise Croatian (; ), is a variety of Shtokavian Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in three villages – Montemitro (), Acquaviva Collecroce () and San Felice del Molise () – in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.

oldest law texts

statement that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are four varieties of a single pluricentric language

Croatian cultural organization; record label and publisher

Croatia's national lexicographical institution

agreement signed by 25 Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian writers, linguists and intellectuals to build unity across the ethnic and linguistic divisions within Yugoslavia and standardize the Serbo-Croatian language

subdialect of Serbo-Croatian

the science of the Croatian language, Croatian culture and Croatian literature, a branch of Slavic studies

language comparison

Shtokavian dialect of Dubrovnik

Croatian linguistic institute and academic publisher in Zagreb

Šatrovački (; Serbian Cyrillic: шатровачки) or šatra (; Serbian Cyrillic: шатра) is an argot within the Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian languages comparable to verlan in French or vesre in Spanish.

1967 declaration of Croatian linguists and intelectuals on the status of Croatian language in SFR Yugoslavia

Shtokavian Serbo-Croatian dialect

Croatian writers' organization

grammar of the Serbo-Croatian language