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Croatian Language
02-09-2008, 10:47 AM
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Croatian language (hrvatski jezik) is a South Slavic language which is used primarily by the inhabitants of Croatia and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of the Croatian diaspora. It is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem.

Croatian is based on the Ijekavian pronunciation of Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Croatian alphabet.

The modern Croatian standard language is a continuous outgrowth of more than nine hundred years of literature written in a mixture of Croatian Church Slavonic and the vernacular language. If the subject is narrowed out, Croatian Church Slavonic had been abandoned by the mid-1400s, and Croatian "purely" vernacular literature has existed for more than five centuries.

ALPHABET
ABECEDA

The Croatian language employs the Latin (or Roman) alphabet. All 30 letters are listed below.

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As you can see, several of the Croatian letters are not "international". Of course, some word processors and other software applications provide Croatian fonts , including the letters with diacritics (e.g., the "hachek"). Still, when using such common applications as vi-editor and e-mail, you will have to rely upon what is universally available, namely, a basic set of ASCII characters.

There are at least two ways of handling the diacritics:

Ignore them. In most cases, this causes no problems in (mis)understanding Croatian words, especially for native speakers.

Use other Latin characters to represent the Croatian letters with diacritics, thus permitting a distinction between "c with a hachek" and plain "c".

Please note that in non-electronic communications one should use the regular letters from the alphabet.

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02-09-2008, 11:23 AM
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can you just add some audio visuals?

its seems that Croatians songs are great, a frnd of mine has strted collecting those.


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02-10-2008, 09:59 AM
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Of course. This links below is abt some croatian songs I like it very much:

Gibonni's songs:

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Prjavo Kazaliste's songs:

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