Croatian Language Days
Description:
From 8 to 14 March Croatia celebrates Days of the Croatian language.
Croatian (Hrvatski jezik) is the official language of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (along with Bosnian and Serbian) and one of the six official languages of the autonomous province of Vojvodina within Serbia. It belongs to the Slavic group of the Indo-European family of languages. Writing based on the Latin alphabet. About 6.2 million speakers.
The Croatian alphabet ("gajica" - after the founder of modern Croatian writing Ludevit Gaj) is built on a Latin basis, consists of 27 letters and three digraphs (usually also considered letters). In the spoken language there are three dialects: Shtokava, Kaikava and Chakava.
Until 1991, it was considered a variant of the unified Serbian (Croatian Serb) language.