Croatian

Croatian is a modern language and a subclass of Eastern Herzegovinian and Serbo-Croatian. It is indigenous to Burgenland, Lower Austria, Vienna, and Croatia. The language is spoken in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro. It has approximately 7,000,000 speakers. The native label is hrvatski jezik or hrvatski.

The language uses Gaj's Latin alphabet and the Glagolitic writing system. Its linguistic typology is subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative, fusional, and synthetic. Croatian has grammatical gender, including feminine and neuter. It features present, past, future, and pluperfect tenses. Grammatical cases include nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative. The Institute of Croatian Language serves as the regulatory body. The Wikimedia language code is hr.