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Croatian is spoken by about 7 million people, the majority (4.2 million) of whom live in the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska). |
The Croatian language is very closely related to
Serbian, and also with
Bosnian and Montenegrin. |
There are a few additional signs in the Croatian alphabet:
č, ć, dž, đ, lj, nj, š and ž
Croatian belongs to the Slavic group of languages which in turn belongs to the Indo-European group of languages.
The Slavic languages are divided into the East Slavic (Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian),
West Slavic (Polish,
Slovakian and Czech)
and the South Slavic language families.
The last group includes Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian and Serbian and the Croatian language.
All these languages have their origin in Proto-Slavic, that developed as a separate language family of the Indo-European group of languages about five thousand years ago.
Slavic languages are spoken today by about 300 million native speakers.
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