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
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.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Croatian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

hr-BA Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

hr-HR Croatian (Croatia)

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