20+ Interesting Facts About Languages In Croatia

1. The national official language and most spoken language in Croatia is Croatian. Here are a few useful words you should know: zdravo (hello), doviđenja (goodbye), da (yes), ne (no)
2. Croatian in Croatian is Hrvatski. 
3. Croatian is a Western South Slavic language. Croatian forms part of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language along with Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
4. Croatian uses the Latin alphabet (a, b, c, č, ć, d, dž, đ, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l,   lj, m, n, nj, o, p, r, s, š, t, u, v, z, ž) and not the Cyrillic alphabet used in other Slavic languages.
5. Croatian has been one of the official languages of the European Union since 2013 along with 5 other Slavic languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovak and Slovenian. European Union in Croatian is Europska unija.
6. Italian is the official language  of Istria County (Istarska županija / Regione  istriana) along with   Croatian.
7. Varieties of Venetian, a Romance language originating in the northeastern Italian region of Veneto, are spoken in the counties of Istria, Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Dalmatia.
8. Dalmatian, an extinct Romance language, was once spoken along the Croatian coast.
9. According to the 2024 Eurobarometer, 41% of Croatians can have a conversation in English.
10. According to the 2024  Eurobarometer, 15% of Croatians can have a conversation in German.
11. According to the 2024  Eurobarometer, 8% of Croatians can have a conversation in Italian.
12. Out of the 29 Croatian entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 22 have been fully or partially in Croatian. When Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia, an entry in Croatian, "Rock Me" by Riva, won the contest in 1989.
13. Czech is a recognised official minority language.
14. Pannonian Rusyn, an East Slavic language,  is a recognised official minority language.
15. Serbian is a recognised official minority language.
16. Hungarian, a Uralic language, is a recognised official minority language.
17. Slovak   is    a recognised official minority language.
18. Istro-Romanian is an endangered Eastern Romance language related to Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian, spoken in Istria. 
19. Arbanasi is an endangered variety of Albanian spoken by Albanians in Croatia.
20. Croatia ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 1997.
21. The Croatian language can be divided into 3 main variants Shtokavian, Chakavian and Kajkavian.​​

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