The official language of Croatia is Croatian, though Italian is also official in the Istria region, and many other languages are spoken by immigrant populations. Croatian has three main dialects and is written using a Latin alphabet primarily designed by Ljudevit Gaj in the 19th century. Croatian literature has developed over different historical periods and includes works across genres that contribute to Croatian culture.

1. LANGUAGES IN
CROATIA

2. Official language
 The official language in Croatia is Croatian
 Official languages in Istria is Croatian and Italian
 Croatian is native language to 96% of population
Croatian dictionary Croatian and Italian language in Istria

3. Other languages in Croatia
 Languages of immigrants:
 Albanian  Romanian
 Bosnian  Russian
 Bulgarian  Slovak
 Czech  Slovenian
 Hebrew  Serbian
 Hungarian  Italian
 Macedonian  Turkish
 German  Ukrainian
 Polish  etc.

4. Dialects
 There are three
dialects in Croatian
language:
 Shtokavian
 Chakavian
 Kajkavian
 Standard and
literary Croatian is
based on the central
dialect, Shtokavian

5. History of Croatian language
Baška tablet , Island Krk Glagolitic Missal of Duke
ca. 1100 Novak, 1368
Vatican Croatian Prayer
Book, ca. 1400

6. Hrvoje's Missal, The Vinodol Codex, A page from the
1404 1288 "Istrian land
survey" of 1526

8. Croatian grammar
 Ten kinds of  Seven cases:  Seven
words:  Nominative tenses:
 Nouns  Accusative  The Past
 Verbs  Genitive  Perfect
 Adjectives  Aorist
 Dative
 Imperfect
 Pronouns  Locative
 Pluperfect
 Numerals  Instrumental
 The Present
 Adverbs  Vocative
 Present
 Prepositions
 The Future
 Conjunctions
 Future I
 Particles  Future II

9. Croatian alphabet
 30 letters
 The Croatian Latin was
mostly designed by Ljudevit
Gaj
 Linguists deal with alphabet
area and study spelling
Croatian linguist and
reformer Croatian
alphabet Ljudevit Gaj

10. Foreign words
 from the:  more recently a major
 Latin blow to the Croatian
 German language is by English
 Italian (“frend”, “shopping”,
 Russian “huligan” etc.)
 Hungarian  some foreign words are
 Turkish “bistro”, “baština”,
 Czech “alkohol”, “alat”, “kula”,
 French
“jorgan” etc.

11. Croatian literature
 periods in the literature:  compilation of
 Medieval period novels, dramas,
 Renaissance short stories and
 Baroque poems
 Classicism and
Enlightenment
 Romanticism
 Protorealism
 Realism
 Modernism Month of Croatian book
 20th century

12. Interesting facts
 The longest word in Croatian language is
“prijestolonasljednikovica”. Its longest form is
“prijestolonasljednikovičičinima”
 The shortest words are a (and, but), u (in), i
(and), o (about), k (to), s (with)
 Croatian is ranked 95th by the number of
speakers
 About 7 million people speak Croatian
 Science that deals with the Croatian language is
called the Croatistics

13. Authors:
 Katarina Krešo
 Nikolina Novaković
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