The main language spoken in Croatia is Croatian. Croatian is in the Slavic language family and is mutually intelligible with (which means it can be understood by speakers of) Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian. Croatia uses the Latin alphabet to write (unlike Serbian which uses an alphabet called Cyrillic), which is the alphabet I’m using to write to you right now, but there are a few extra letters in Croatian such as Ć (makes a ‘ch’ sound) and Š (makes a ‘sh’) and some letters which aren’t used at all, such as W, X and Y. The Croatian language uses phonetic spelling which means that every word is spelled exactly how it's pronounced, no hidden vowels or repeating consonants! I guess that means a spelling bee in Croatia would last forever. You still must know the sound each letter makes though, for example, the name ‘Johnny’ in English would be transliterated into -> Đoni because Croatian has no letter Y, the letter J makes an English Y sound and the letter Đ makes an English J sound. I hope that didn’t make you too confused! Croatia is also a country where every region has its own dialect, and in some places, you can even tell what village or town someone is from based on what words they use and how they pronounce certain words.
