The Croatian alphabet is a modified and extended version of the Latin alphabet which is used in Croatian language. The Croatian alphabet consists of thirty lower and uppercase letters: The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Croatian language (Croatian: ) is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. ...

a b c č ć d dž đ e f g h i j k l lj m n nj o p r s š t u v z ž

A B C Č Ć D Dž Đ E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S Š T U V Z Ž

Each of the five vowels may also be written with additional pitch accents, but that is uncommon. Look up A, a in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ÄŒ in uper- and lowercase ÄŒ is the fourth letter of the Croatian, Czech, Serbian and Slovenian alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Look up D, d in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ç… (lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... Đ (lowercase Ä‘) is the sixth letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up F, f in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The lowercase i redirects here. ... The letter J is the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... Look up K, k in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... LJ might be an acronym, abbreviation, or nickname for: LJ is the IATA code for Sierra National Airlines LiveJournal Linux Journal La Jolla, California Library Journal Ljubljana or its University of Ljubljana LaserJet Lord Justice of Appeal (plural: LJJ) Larry Johnson (football) LJ Reyes Fictional characters L.J. Burrows See... Look up M, m in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the letter N. For the Flash game, see N (game). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This is for the letter O. For Oxygen, see here. ... Look up P, p in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter R is the eighteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up S, s in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... For other uses, see T (disambiguation). ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Look up V, v in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... Look up A, a in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ÄŒ in uper- and lowercase ÄŒ is the fourth letter of the Croatian, Czech, Serbian and Slovenian alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Look up D, d in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ç… (lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... Đ (lowercase Ä‘) is the sixth letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up F, f in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The lowercase i redirects here. ... The letter J is the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... Look up K, k in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... LJ might be an acronym, abbreviation, or nickname for: LJ is the IATA code for Sierra National Airlines LiveJournal Linux Journal La Jolla, California Library Journal Ljubljana or its University of Ljubljana LaserJet Lord Justice of Appeal (plural: LJJ) Larry Johnson (football) LJ Reyes Fictional characters L.J. Burrows See... Look up M, m in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the letter N. For the Flash game, see N (game). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This is for the letter O. For Oxygen, see here. ... Look up P, p in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The letter R is the eighteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Look up S, s in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... For other uses, see T (disambiguation). ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Look up V, v in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Z, z in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... Pitch accent is a kind of accent system employed in many languages around the world. ...

The Serbian language uses a modified Cyrillic, the Serbian Cyrillic, which maps one to one to the Croatian alphabet. When Serbian is written in Latin script, the above letters are used. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Serbian Cyrillic is the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. ...

Note that Dž, Lj, Nj are considered to be single letters — they are digraphs. This means that: Ç… (lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... Lj in uper- and lowercase LJ is also an abbreviation for LiveJournal Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages such as Serbian and Croatian, where it is pronounced (IPA) . For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced . ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

• In dictionaries, njegov comes after novine, in a separate NJ section after the end of the N section, and bolje comes after bolnica, and so forth.

• In vertical writing (such as on signs), Dž, Lj, Nj are nevertheless written horizontally, as a unit. For instance, if mjenjačnica is written vertically, nj appears on the fourth line (but note m and j appear separately on the first and second lines, respectively, because mj contains two letters, not one). In crossword puzzles, Dž, Lj, Nj each occupy a single square.
• In cases where words are written with a space between each letter (such as on signs), each of these letters is written together. For instance: M J E NJ A Č N I C A.
• In cases where only the initial letter of a word is capitalized, only the first of the two component letters is capitalized: Njemačka and not NJemačka. In Unicode, the form Nj is referred to as titlecase, as opposed to the uppercase form NJ, representing one of the few cases where titlecase and uppercase differ. Uppercase would be used if the entire word was capitalized: NJEMAČKA.

Dž (lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... Lj in uper- and lowercase LJ is also an abbreviation for LiveJournal Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages such as Serbian and Croatian, where it is pronounced (IPA) . For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced . ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. ... Dž (lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Serbian (Latin form) alphabets, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... Lj in uper- and lowercase LJ is also an abbreviation for LiveJournal Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages such as Serbian and Croatian, where it is pronounced (IPA) . For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced . ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... For any word written in a language with whose alphabet or alphabet equivalent has two cases, such as those using the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, or Armenian alphabet, capitalization (or capitalisation) is the writing of that word with its first letter in majuscules (uppercase) and the remaining letters in minuscules (lowercase). ...

Origins

The Croatian Latin was mostly designed by Ljudevit Gaj, who modelled it after Czech and Polish, and invented Lj/lj, Nj/nj and Dž/dž. In 1830 in Buda he printed the book Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskog pravopisanja ("Brief basics of the Croatian-Slavonic orthography"), which was the first common Croatian orthography book. It was not the first ever Croatian orthography work, as it was preceded by works of Rajmund Đamanjić (1639), Ignjat Đurđević and Pavao Ritter Vitezović. The Croatians had previously used the Latin alphabet, but some of the specific sounds were not uniformly represented. Ljudevit Gaj Ljudevit Gaj (August 8, 1809 – April 20, 1872) was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Buda is a historical city in Hungary on the West bank of the Danube. ... The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs correctly, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. ... Ignjat ĐurÄ‘ević (February, 1675 - January 21, 1737) was a Croatian baroque poet and translator, best known for his long poem Tears of Repentant Magdalene. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...

Gaj followed the example of Pavao Ritter Vitezović and the Czech orthography, making one letter of the Latin script for each sound in the language. His alphabet mapped completely on Serbian Cyrillic which was standardized by Vuk Karadžić a few years before. Đuro Daničić added the letter Đ/đ. The Czech alphabet consists of 42 letters (or more precisely - graphemes): A, Á, B, C, ÄŒ, D, ÄŽ, E, É, Äš, F, G, H, Ch, I, Í, J, K, L, M, N, Ň, O, Ó, P, Q, R, Ř, S, Å , T, Ť, U, Ú, Å®, V, W, X, Y, Ý, Z, Ž Most of the diacritic letters were added to the alphabet through reforms... Serbian Cyrillic is the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Вук Стефановић Караџић) (November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serb linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. ... Đuro Daničić (born April 4, 1825 in Novi Sad, died November 17, 1882 in Zagreb), was Serbian philologist, translator, linguistic historian and lexicographer. ...

Computing

In the 1990s, there was a general confusion about the proper character encoding to use to write text in Croatian on computers. See also 1990s, the band Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. ...

• An attempt was made to apply the 7-bit "YUSCII" (later adapted to CROSCII), which included the five letters with diacritics at the expense of five non-letter characters ([, ], {, }, @), but it was ultimately unsuccessful.
• the 8-bit ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) standard was developed by ISO, but
• Microsoft Windows spread another 8-bit encoding called CP1250, which had a few letters mapped one-to-one with ISO 8859-2, but also had some mapped elsewhere

The preferred character encoding for Croatian today is either the ISO 8859-2, or the Unicode encoding UTF-8 (with two bytes or 16 bits necessary to use the letters with diacritics). 8-bit refers to the number of bits used in the data bus of a computer. ... ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. ... A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ...

See also

• Croatian language

The Croatian language (Croatian: ) is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. ...

External links

• Learn Croatian - Croatian alphabet overview with audio files