Croatian national language and Croatian as a Second Language
Croatian speaking countries include both countries with Croatian national language and Croatian as a second language. Check if Croatian language is one of the Most Spoken Languages.
- Croatian is national language of Austria.
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Second Language is a non-native language of the speaker, but used in the locality of that person.
- Croatian is not spoken as second language.
The Croatian countries mentioned under Croatian Speaking countries are the countries where majority of people speak Croatian language.
Croatian as minority language
Countries with Croatian as minority language are also included in Croatian speaking countries.
- Croatian is spoken as minority language in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania.
Along with Croatian speaking countries check out Croatian speaking population. The language spoken by minority of the population of a territory is called minority language.
- Continent wise Croatian speaking countries mainly lie in Europe.
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Croatian Regulator and Facts
Many world languages have one or more language regulators. The bodies that regulate standard languages are usually called language academies. Official organizations that regulate Croatian language are Croatian regulators. Croatian is regulated by Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics. The regulatory bodies of Croatian lie in Croatian speaking countries. Some of the interesting facts of Croatian:
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
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The Croatian language is derived from Church Slavonic and is closely related to Serbain and Bosnian.