Croatian language

The Croatian language

Croatian language is spoken, whose origin (as also occurs for the Serbian and Bosnian language) comes directly from the Slavic language. However, the Croatian language differs from Serbian as it uses Latin characters, not the Cyrillic as with the Serbian language. In general, it is quite a significant presence of dialects are those of the coast, one of the central area of the capital Zagreb and the one used in Slavonia.
In the country, are very common the Italian language (especially in regions that were formerly the Kingdom of Italy), German and of course English in tourist areas. In fact, learn to speak Croatian is not so easy, but it's good to know some more information during your trip.

Dialects in Croatia

Dialects of CroaziaIn Croatia are spoken dialects, grouped in three main language groups: Čakavo, Kajkavo and Štokavo. The first is marked especially in the coastal area of the country (up to Istria) and the islands of Croatia, the second gets to be spoken in the north of the country, near the border with Slovenia and Hungary to touch some villages. Often, it is customary to call the dialect groups according to the corresponding interrogative pronoun, namely Ca, Kaj, I'm (who, what).

The dialect Čakavo is often seen as the first major linguistic group of Croatian literature, meaning that in use as a literary language of the Croats. Among the first documents in that dialect we find the first of Judith Marko Marulić (Latinized Marcus Marulus), a famous writer of the fifteenth of Split, who not only wrote in Latin, but it was one of the first to write in the Illyrian language, using just the dialect above.

The Kajkavo dialect is spoken in the inland areas of the country, in the capital Zagreb and also in the border with Austria (as the Burgenland), Hungary, Romania and also the border with Slovenia. With this, the dialect goes to make up all the dialects of the southern Slavic (ie differing from those of Western countries ranging from Poland to Slovakia, and from the eastern Russian-Ukrainian).