ISO 639-3 · hrvhrv
Indo-European family
Croatian
hrvatski jezik
Croatian is a language of the Western South Slavic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and 7 more countries. Wikidata counts about 7 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “South Slavic language spoken in Croatia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
hrv- ISO 639-1
hr- Glottocode
croa1245- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 45.00, 15.00
- Wikipedia
- 202 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
11countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Croatian · hrvatski jezik |
|---|---|
| Also called | Croatian language, Hrvatski |
| All speakers | 7,000,000 |
| Written in | Gaj's Latin alphabet |
| Official in | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Grammatical cases | 7 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 4 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Croatian
The branches above Croatian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Croatiaofficial · 17 languages in the indexBosnia and Herzegovinaofficial · 8 languages in the indexSerbia18 languages in the indexMontenegro9 languages in the indexAustria11 languages in the indexHungary10 languages in the indexItaly39 languages in the indexRomania18 languages in the indexSlovakia10 languages in the indexSlovenia7 languages in the indexCzech Republic9 languages in the index
Also spoken in Croatia
hunHungarianUralic · 12.6 m1 · NationalsrpSerbianunclassified · 9 m1 · NationalbosBosnianunclassified · 3.5 m1 · NationalvecVenetianIndo-European · 2 m5 · DevelopingrueRusynIndo-European · 610,0006a · VigorousrskPannonian RusynIndo-European · 14,185Definitely endangeredcsqCroatian Sign Languageunclassified · 13,0005 · DevelopingruoIstro-RomanianIndo-European · 1,0007 · ShiftingistIstriotIndo-European · 1,0006b · ThreatenedchuChurch SlavonicIndo-European6b · Threatened