Branko Franolic, who spent his long life exploring and explaining the Croatian language, and whose life encompassed dramatic periods in Croatian history, has died aged 86. The word of Slavic scholars ...

Croatia joined the European Union in 2013, but the country was dogged by its wartime past throughout the year as angry protests erupted over language rights for the Serb minority. This post is also ...

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković’s government submitted the long-announced final version of the Law on the Croatian Language – in which the government is given the authority to protect and ensure the ...

A language school in Croatia is persuading people to learn English by reminding them of one Eastern European whose linguistic skills brought her a long way—Melania Trump. The Američki Institut in ...

SOME 17m people in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro speak variations of what used to be called Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian. Officially though, the language that once united Yugoslavia has, ...

Croatians commonly assert that "Best wishes come from the heart." When they say it in most places, it sounds like this: But in a few sleepy villages tucked under Ucka Mountain on Croatia's Istrian ...

Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are a single language: Serbo-Croat. Of course regional dialects exist, as they do in any other language, but a different dialect is not a different language. For example, ...

There is nothing wrong with referring to Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian as separate languages, in the same way as Hindi/Urdu, Swedish/Norwegian, Flemish/Dutch is. But it is a purely national and ...

Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura is unfit for the World Cup because he cannot speak a word of English or any other international language, Croatia centre-back Vedran Corluka said. Corluka was one of ...