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Language code: hrv

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hrv

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The table below provides technical details for the Croatian language, designated by the hrv code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

hrv

Standard

ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3

Name

Official

Croatian

Native

Hrvatski

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
ShtokavianKajkavianChakavian
Related languages
SerbianBosnianMontenegrinSlovene
Key facts
Old Croatian texts were originally written in the Glagolitic alphabetThe Baška tablet from circa 1100 is one of the earliest known Croatian inscriptionsThe modern 30-letter Latin alphabet was standardized by Ljudevit Gaj in 1835Croatian distinguishes meanings through a four-way pitch accent systemIt retains a Slavic system of seven grammatical cases for nouns and pronouns
Sample phrase

Bok, kako si?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Croatian language, identified by the code hrv, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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