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Despite being a relatively small country, Croatian has three main dialects which means that practically speaking a villager from northern Croatia might have problems understanding a fishermen from the farthest populated Croatian island Lastovo, because they speak completely different dialects of the Croatian language!
Čakavian – spoken along the Croatian coast, on many islands and in the Lika region
Kajkavian – spoken in northern and northwestern Croatia
Štokavian – spoken in the rest of Croatia
The Croatian alphabet has 30 letters in total, and differs from the standard Latin alphabet in the following ways:
Did you know?
Although nowadays Croatian uses the Latin alphabet, Croatian was originally written in Glagolitic, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, which was invented in the 9th and commonly used until as late as the 18th century!
In Croatia, each letter represents a single sound, which means that after a little practice, Croatian words are consistently very easy to pronounce.
When learning Croatian, you should keep the following points in mind:
Here's a guide to pronouncing each letter in the Croatian alphabet:
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