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	Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
		Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
		Serbian (српски;), Croatian (Hrvatski) and Bosnian (Bosanski) are closely related Southern Slavonic languages formerly known collectively as Serbo-Croat.
		Croatian contains many words of Latin and German origin but many new Croatian words are created by combining and adapting existing ones.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/serbo-croat.htm (459 words)

	CROATIAN LANGUAGE FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE COMPUTER AGE
		Croatian literature participated in all the major European artistic and intellectual movements from the Renaissance and the Reformation to the contemporary currents.
		Five Croatian writers, two Serbian philologists, and one Slovenian linguists in Vienna in 1850 and signed the so-called "Vienna Literary Convention." This was a manifesto calling for the creation of a common language for all Croats and all Serbs.
		Having concluded that the Croatian language was being degraded to the status of a local dialect, eighteen Croatian scholarly institutions published The Declaration Concerning the Name and Position of Croatian Literary Language in March 1967.
	www.croatianacademy.org /croatian-language-vol25-26.htm (1548 words)

	Croatian
		Croatian belongs to the South Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
		The Croatian Latin alphabet was revised shortly afterwards by Ljudevit Gaj who added five extra symbols to the standard Latin alphabet by borrowing letters from Czech and Polish, and inventing the digraphs "lj", "nj" and "dž" for phonemes represented by single letters in the Cyrillic alphabet.
		Croatian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/croatian.html (1243 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		One of the Southern Slavonic languages, Croatian is most closely related to Serbian, Bosnian and Slovene.
		Croatian and Serbian are similar, sharing many pronouns and cases, and they are mutually understandable.
		Due to the Balkan conflict, the different national groups established their own official languages, and the term Croatian is used to describe the official language of Croatia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/languages/croatian.shtml (108 words)

	Croatian Sheepdog Information and Pictures, Croatian Sheepdogs
		This is a native Croatian breed and descends from dogs which the Croats brought with them from their original native land into the region they occupy today and which has been continually bred in Croatia, mostly in the fertile plains of Slavonia, from those days onward.
		The earliest written document about Croatian Sheepdogs, named “Canis pastoralis croaticus”, found in the archives of diocese of Djakovo by "father of the breed" - veterinarian Prof Dr Stjepan Romic - is from 1374.
		In all of these documents the description of the Croatian Sheepdog matches entirely its appearance today and in all of them the dog is named Canis pastoralis croaticus or Croatian Sheepdog.
	www.dogbreedinfo.com /croatiansheepdog.htm (500 words)

	Visit Croatia - Croatian Cuisine
		Croatian food is normally simple peasant food, which is easy to prepare but delicious nonetheless.
		People from the Croatian Adriatic eat food that is very similar to Italian cuisine.
		Please note that many Croatian people (actually, the whole of Eastern Europe) use a food enhancer called Vegeta (vegetable seasoning) to flavour their dishes.
	www.visit-croatia.co.uk /cuisine (1412 words)

	Bosnian, Croatian & Serbian Tutorial
		Croatian is spoken in Croatia and in some parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, the Burgenland region of Austria and the Molise region of Italy.
		Another main difference between Serbian and Croatian is the use of "da." Sentences in Serbian using a conjugated verb and an infinitive will have da between them, but sentences in Croatian just use the conjugated verb and infinitive together.
		Croatian writes certain words differently than Serbian as well, such as [Croatian] mlijeko, bijelo, pjevati, and mjesto vs. [Serbian] mleko, belo, pevati, mesto (milk, white, sing, and place).
	www.ielanguages.com /croatian.html (1691 words)

	CGHS: "A GUIDE to CROATIAN GENEALOGY", by Adam S. Eterovich
		Croatians were palace guards to the Caliphs of Moslem Spain in 1000 - 1200 A.D. and palace guards to the kings of France.
		Croatian Galleons were in regular trade with Spain, Portugal, France, England, Itlay, and the Ottoman Turks prior to the discovery of America.
		Croatians immigrating to the East and Midwest came during the Industrial Revolution of the 1870's and settled in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and West Virginia.
	feefhs.org /cro/cghs-gcg.html (1876 words)

	Croatian Translation Services - Translators English/Croatian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today, Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia and one of three official languages of Bosnia-Hezegovina.
		Used primarily by the Croats, Croatian is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages, yet it is only one of the standard varieties of the Central-South Slavic diasystem once referred to as Serbo-Croatian.
		Croatian has over 5 million speakers currently living in the Republic of Croatia, in areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina and in numerous foreign lands.
	www.greentranslations.com /croatian-translation.html (248 words)

	CROATIAN PORTRAITS: STJEPAN RADIC
		Croatian public opinion at that time began to insist with the greater determination on secession from Belgrade and on the creation of a Croatian state.
		With the act the Croatian question was attenuated at the level of international politics and reduced to the internal question of Yugoslavia.
		The Croatian communists repeated the fatal and disastrous errors of those Croatian politicians who in 1918 delivered the Croatian nation into the hands of Alexander Karageorgivic, thereby reducing Croatia to a territory and colony under Serbian occupation.
	www.magma.ca /~rendic/radic.htm (5414 words)

	General information about Croatian language
		Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia and one of the three official languages of Bosnia-Hezegovina.
		It is a South Slavonic language spoken as a mother tongue by 4,6 million people, mainly of Croatian origin living in the Republic of Croatia, parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina and by the Croats living abroad.
		Croatian orthography is largely phonemic, which means that each phoneme--or distinctive sound--is represented by a single letter and each letter, in turn, generally represents a single sound.
	www.ecml.at /html/croatian/html/language.html (400 words)

	Croatian Eagles Soccer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Croatian Soccer Club located in Franklin Wisconsin and established in 1922 is one of the oldest soccer clubs in Wisconsin.
		The Croatian Eagles SC is having the 07 / 08 registration and sign up for the U7, U8, and U9 teams on June 6th, 7th and 11th from 5:30PM - 7:00PM.
		Let's have a fun and safe Memorial weekend and of course remember the reason for the long weekend which is to pay respects for all of those who lost their lives defending this country.
	eteamz.active.com /CroatianEaglesHarty (343 words)

	BH Lingual - Los Angeles' Premier Croatian School
		The Beverly Hills Lingual Institute is the premier Croatian and Serbian language school in Los Angeles, offering Los Angeles Croatian and Serbian classes for all levels of L.A. Croatian and Serbian students.
		The Croatian and Serbian courses are taught at our new facility in the beautiful Golden Triangle of Beverly Hills at a cost of $275 per eight-week term.
		Croatian and Serbian language tutors are also available for private instruction and corporate programs.
	members.aol.com /BHLingual/Pages/Croatian_v1.htm (276 words)

	Croatian Collections
		The Croatian collections in the British Library include some of the earliest material printed in the Glagolitic script; the 1508 Mirakuli slavne dive Marie (C.48.b.23) printed in Senj (Zeng) by Grgur Senjanin, Croatian Missal printed in 1528 [C.52.e.1] and a Missal printed in Rijeka (Fiume) by Šimun Kožičić Benja in 1531 [C.110.e.2.(1)].
		Among early editions of the first Croatian imaginative writers and philosophers in the British Library are the first edition of Hanibal Lucić's Scladanya izvarsnich pisan razlicich (Venice, 1556) [G.18453] and Rubigna (Venice, 1585) [C.34.e.37], and a collection of poems by Dinko Ranjina printed in 1563 [G.10010] and 1565 [11422.a.12].
		Beginning in the 1850s, the Library obtained a large quantity of rare Croatian material and special efforts were made to collect academic publications, historical material, newspapers and material in the arts.
	www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/croatia.html (750 words)

	Croatian Cyrillic Script
		Croatian Glagolitic monuments than Cyrillic, not to speak about tremendous Croatian literature in the Latin Script since the 15th century.
		It is interesting that some of the Croatian Catholics, who visited the Vatican in the 17th and 18th century, left their signatures written in the Croatian Cyrillic, which they call expressly the Croatian script.
		the Croatian Cyrillic inscription of the Povlja lintel (1184) from the Benedictine monastery in the village of Povlja on the island of Brac near Split;
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/et04.html (2437 words)

	White Ravens
		Although somewhat overshadowed by the war going on in the country, the description of life under primitive conditions in the mountainous region, family worries, the problem of the children of emigrant workers who return to their country of origin and general social problems is still current.
		Shocking psychogram-like sketches by the young journalist Siniša Glavašević from the besieged northeast Croatian city of Vukovar, which has been fully destroyed in the meantime and in which all traces of the author disappear toward the end of 1991/the beginning of 1992.
		This meticulously designed book opens with the fairy tales of the classic Croatian chidren's writer Ivana Bilié-Maźuvanié (1874-1938) and the social critic Vladimir Nazor (1876-1949), who both drawn upon folk writings and integrate Slavic myths into their tales.
	www.icdlbooks.org /servlet/WhiteRavens?title=Croatian&where=language='Croatian' (2552 words)

	Forged in Blood: Croatian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The recent appearance of Croatian on the world stage serves as an excellent example of this principle in action.
		In the past, Croatian was a widely-recognised and respected language among Slavic societies, influencing in particular the Czech culture, another westward-oriented Slavic society.
		Unfortunately for Croatian nationalists (not to mention their victims), any documentable differences between Croatian and Serbian traditions are rarely more than skin deep.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/45929 (573 words)

	Croatian Cuisine: Cookbooks, Recipes, Restaurants and Food Industry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Croatian cuisine is a cuisine of regions, reflecting Croatian geography, history and culture.
		What is interesting was that Anthony was of Croatian heritage and talked about his father being a fisherman from one of the islands of Croatia who immigrated to America and opened this restaurant in New Orleans in 1927.
		When a dry white wine from the Croatian Adriatic Island of Krk reached the restaurant of Milan Miletić, situated between the prestigious Madison and Fifth Avenues, the whole shipment was immediately consumed.
	www.croatianmall.com /croatia/food (1223 words)

	Amazon.ca: Croatian : Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs: Books: Pimsleur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I have to give Pimsleur Croatian program five stars for the excellence of the product, but as good as the course is it may not be for you.
		It is also; however, an excellent introduction to the Croatian language for anyone with an interest in the language.
		Whether you see Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian as dialects of one language or as individual languages in their own right is up to you, but the material presented here is probably generic and simple enough to communicate with people from virtually anywhere in the former Yugoslavia.
	www.amazon.ca /Croatian-Understand-Pimsleur-Language-Programs/dp/0671581899 (1152 words)

	Croatian translation by Croatian translator - Immigration service
		Translation: from Croatian to English or from English to Croatian in Croatian scripts.
		Is it from Croatian to English or from English to Croatian?
		Your Croatian translation is carefully monitored to ensure that deadlines are always met and that the texts are free from any error.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /croatian.htm (400 words)

	Croatian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Croatian is based on the Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet.
		According to the eminent Croatian linguist Ljudevit Jonke, it was imposed on the Croats.
		Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_language (3671 words)

	NEWS
		Besides Jović, there are four other Croatian journalists recently indicted for contempt of court, because they had published classified testimonies and revealed the identity of a protected witness, a high-ranking Croatian politician.
		Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Škare Ožbolt said yesterday that Croatian authorities could not extradite Jelavić because of the constitutional provision on non-extradition of Croatian citizens: "A Croatian citizen can not be extradited to another country.
		Newly discovered documents in a Croatian archive shows that as Government Secretary, Strbac had one of the most important roles in the Serbian occupation of Croatia - and that he himself helped facilitate the growth of 'Greater Serbia' and the looting of Croatian property.
	www.hic.hr /english/index.htm (1457 words)

	Culture > CROATIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
		Croatian dialects are, roughly, divided in three groups named after the dialectal word for interrogatory pronoun which is in Latin «quid» or in English «what»: ča-Čakavian (chakavian), što-Štokavian (shtokavian) and kaj-Kajkavian (kaykavian).
		Karadžić's work was the revolution for Serbs; yet his influence on Croatian language was only one of the reforms, mostly in some aspects of grammar and orthography since the majority of his innovations had been present in Croatian literary and linguistic corpora for centuries.
		Croatian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology vs. Serbian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology.
	www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/croatian_language.html (4338 words)

	The Croatian Intelligence Community
		The organization of the SZUP was entrusted to Josip Manolic, Minister of the Interior and former chief of the Croatian SDB.
		The Directorate of Intelligence Affairs of the Croatian Army Headquarters, formed in 1991, serves as the intelligence coordinating service for all of the armed forces and is directly attached to the Croatian General Staff for intelligence support.
		Croatian Navy (HRM - Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica): The HRM maintains headquarters at Lora Naval Base outside of Split on the Adriatic Sea and is organized into three coastal command sectors: North at Pula, Central at Sibenik, and South Adriatic at Ploce.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/croatia/hatzadony.html (3936 words)

	Sociolinguistic Analysis of Serbo-Croatian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ijekavian is the dialect considered to be standard Croatian and Ekavian is the dialect considered to be standard Serbian.
		The general attitude of Croats is that Croatian (Stokavian - Ijekavian) and Serbian (Stokavian - Ekavian) are completely autonomous languages and as such, Croats try to emphasize the differences.
		This is a particularly arbitrary movement, for many of these "Serbian" words have commonly been used by Croatians and it seems that the labelling of words as "Serbian" or not is more politically motivated than etymologically.
	www.shaav.com /professional/linguistics/serbocroation.html (510 words)

	Croatian Language - Pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Croatian orthography is largely phonemic, which means that each phoneme--or distinctive sound--is represented by a single letter and each letter, in turn, generally represents a single sound.
		The Croatian phonemes described below, as well as in the table representing the Croatian alphabet, are unambiguously transcribed in the symbols of the International Phonetic Association.
		The sounds of Croatian are compared to similar sounds in British and American English, as well as other widely spoken European languages.
	skeravec.chez.tiscali.fr /Pronounc.html (1249 words)

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