Language code: `hr`

Technical 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	`hr`
Name	Official Croatian Native Hrvatski
Family	South Slavic
Scripts	Latin
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	ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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.