hrTechnical information about ISO 639 language code hr
The table below provides technical details for the Croatian language, designated by the hr code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Croatian Native Hrvatski |
| Family | South Slavic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | ShtokavianChakavianKajkavian |
| Related languages | BosnianSerbianMontenegrinSlovene |
| Key facts | Uses Latin alphabet with special diacritics such as č, ć and đStandardization advanced during the 19th-century Illyrian movementFirst printed Croatian book appeared in 1483, among the earliest in Slavic languagesGrammar features three genders and seven casesMany dialects have a four-way pitch accent system. |
| Sample phrase | Bok, kako si? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Croatian belongs to the South Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages, which is part of the Indo-European family. It is the official language of Croatia and also serves as one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Additionally, it is recognized as a minority language in Montenegro, the Vojvodina region of Serbia, and Austria. It is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 5 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Croatian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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