Croatian phrasebook

Croatian is a Slavic language (also known as Serbo-Croatian) spoken by around 5 million people. It is the official language of Croatia and an official regional language in Austria.

Croatian belongs to the "synthetic" language group, which means that unlike English and other "analytical" languages, different grammatical aspects are expressed in one word by changing the structure of that word - adding an ending or prefix, modifying the core of the word, etc. In analytical languages such as English, the same is achieved by using separate auxiliary verbs, pronouns or adjectives while the actual word remains unchanged. In Croatian, one word is often sufficient to express what English can only achieve by using multiple words. Be aware that some nationalists tend to exagerate differences among Serbs, Croats and Bosnians, giving the false impression that they are different languages; in reality, they are all the same, only separated by a few minimal vocabulary differences.

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