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Name: Croatian
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Serbian-Croatian; Serbocroatian; Serbo-Croatian; Hrvatski; Serbo-Croat
Spoken in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Number of speakers: 3,980,000 in Croatia (2001 census). Population total all countries: 5,546,590 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 6214643 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: hrv
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialect Groups: Kajkavian; Kaykavski (hrv-kay) Čakavian; Chakavski; Chakavian (hrv-cha)
Parent Dialects: Slavonian; Archaic Šćakavian (hrv-sla) Eastern Herzegovinian; Eastern-Herzegovininan-Krajina; Younger Ijekavian (hrv-eas) Bosnian-Dalmatian; Dalmation-Bosnian; Western Ikavian; Younger Ikavian (bos-dal) Dubrovnikan (hrv-dub)
Child Dialects: Burgenland Croatian (hrv-bur) Croatian (hrv-cro)

Endangerment Status


Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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