Croatian language

The Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. It is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem.

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Language - Slavic languages - Croats - Diasystem

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Croatian is based on the ?tokavian dialect (with some influence from ?akavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet.

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?tokavian dialect - ?akavian - Kajkavian - Latin alphabet

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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 we narrow out the subject, Croatian Church Slavonic had been abandoned by the mid-1400s, and Croatian "purely" vernacular literature has been in existence for more than five centuries — a story of remarkable linguistic continuity with only a few shock points.

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Standard language - Church Slavonic - 1400s

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