Language · ISO 639-3 hrv · hr
Croatian Language hrvatski
Croatian is a language spoken by about 7.0 million people in 9 countries. It is an official language of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is written in the Latin and Glagolitic scripts.
Where Croatian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Croatian
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin and Glagolitic scripts
About the Croatian language
Croatian (hrvatski) is spoken by about 7.0 million people, which makes it the 152nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Eastern Maninkakan (7.1 million) and ahead of Sadri (7.0 million).
Where is Croatian spoken?
Croatian is used in 9 countries. The largest communities live in Croatia (4.1 million), Slovenia (1.3 million), Germany (664,540), Bosnia and Herzegovina (455,840) and Austria (107,615). More than half of the population speaks it in Croatia and Slovenia — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Croatian: Croatia 99% (4.1 million), Slovenia 61% (1.3 million), Germany 0.8% (664,540), Bosnia and Herzegovina 12% (455,840), Austria 1.2% (107,615) and Canada 0.2% (77,589).
Croatian is an official language in 2 countries: Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also has regional official status in Austria and Serbia.
Writing system and status
Croatian is written in the Latin and Glagolitic scripts.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 hr, ISO 639-3 hrv.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.