croatian language
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LANGUAGES IN CROATIA
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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
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Other languages in Croatia
Languages of immigrants: Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Czech Hebrew Hungarian Macedonian German Polish
Romanian Russian Slovak Slovenian Serbian Italian Turkish Ukrainian etc.
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Dialects
There are three dialects in Croatian language: Shtokavian Chakavian Kajkavian
Standard and literary Croatian is based on the central dialect, Shtokavian
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History of Croatian language
Baška tablet , Island Krk
ca. 1100
Glagolitic Missal of Duke Novak, 1368
Vatican Croatian Prayer Book, ca. 1400
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Hrvoje's Missal, 1404
A page from the "Istrian land survey" of 1526
The Vinodol Codex, 1288
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Movie about the history of the Croatian language
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Croatian grammar
Seven cases: Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative Locative Instrument
al Vocative
Ten kinds of words: Nouns Verbs Adjectives Pronouns Numerals Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Particles Exclamations
Seven tenses: The Past
Perfect Aorist Imperfect Pluperfect
The Present Present
The Future Future I Future II
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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
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Foreign words
from the: Latin German Italian Russian Hungarian Turkish Czech French
more recently a major blow to the Croatian language is by English (“frend”, “shopping”, “huligan” etc.)
some foreign words are “bistro”, “baština”, “alkohol”, “alat”, “kula”, “jorgan” etc.
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Croatian literature
compilation of novels, dramas, short stories and poems
periods in the literature: Medieval period Renaissance Baroque Classicism and
Enlightenment Romanticism Protorealism Realism Modernism 20th century Month of Croatian book
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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
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Authors:
Katarina Krešo Nikolina Novaković
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