Croatian
The Croatian language belongs to the South Slavic branch of Slavic group of languages.
It is the official language of Croatia. With its written standard developing in the 11th century from a number of Croatian dialects, Croatian was one of the
first languages that emancipated themselves from the common Slavic substratum.
4,800,000 in Croatia. 21,000,000
in all countries. Also in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania,
Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Sweden, other countries.
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