Editing Croatia (section)

=== Languages ===
{{Main|Croatian language|Languages of Croatia|Minority languages of Croatia |Bunjevac dialect}}
Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia. [[Minority languages of Croatia|Minority languages are in official use]] in local government units where more than a third of the population consists of national minorities or where local enabling legislation applies. Those languages are [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Italian language in Croatia|Italian]], [[Serbian language in Croatia|Serbian]], and [[Slovak language|Slovak]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sabor|url=http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?art=23872|title=Izviješće o provođenju ustavnog zakona o pravima nacionalnih manjina i utrošku sredstava osiguranih u državnom proračunu Republike Hrvatske za 2007. godinu za potrebe nacionalnih manjina|language=hr|trans-title=Report on Implementation of Constitutional Act on National Minority Rights and Expenditure of Funds Appropriated by the 2007 State Budget for Use by the National Minorities|date=28 November 2008|access-date=27 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509061001/http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?art=23872|archive-date=9 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Franceschini546"/> The following minority languages are also recognised: [[Albanian language|Albanian]], [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], German, [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Istro-Romanian language|Istro-Romanian]], [[Romani language|Romani]], Russian, [[Rusyn language|Rusyn]], [[Slovene language|Slovene]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]].<ref name="Franceschini546">{{cite book|last=Franceschini|first=Rita|chapter=Italy and the Italian-Speaking Regions|editor-last=Fäcke|editor-first=Christiane|title=Manual of Language Acquisition|year=2014|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH|isbn=9783110394146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zM_mBQAAQBAJ&q=Manual+of+Language+Acquisition&pg=PA1|page=546}}</ref>

According to the 2011 Census, 95.6% of citizens declared Croatian as their native language, 1.2% declared Serbian as their native language, while no other language reaches more than 0.5%.<ref name="Census-2011-languages">{{Croatian Census 2011|T}}</ref> Croatian is a member of the [[South Slavic languages]] and is written using the [[Latin alphabet]]. There are three major dialects spoken on the territory of Croatia, with standard Croatian based on the [[Shtokavian]] dialect. The [[Chakavian]] and [[Kajkavian]] dialects are distinguished from Shtokavian by their [[lexicon]], [[phonology]] and [[syntax]].<ref name="Brozović-HRV">{{cite web|publisher=[[Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics]]|language=hr|title=Organska podloga hrvatskog jezika|trans-title=The Organic Base of Croatian|url=http://www.ihjj.hr/oHrJeziku-povijest-1.html|access-date=11 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807082335/http://www.ihjj.hr/oHrJeziku-povijest-1.html|archive-date=7 August 2011}}</ref>

A 2011 survey revealed that 78% of Croats claim knowledge of at least one foreign language.<ref name="Index-lang">{{cite web|publisher=Index.hr|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/istrazivanje-tri-posto-visokoobrazovanih-ne-zna-niti-jedan-strani-jezik-hrvati-uglavnom-znaju-engleski/545687.aspx|language=hr|title=Istraživanje: Tri posto visokoobrazovanih ne zna niti jedan strani jezik, Hrvati uglavnom znaju engleski|trans-title=Survey: Three per cent of higher educated people can not speak any foreign languages, Croats mostly speak English|date=5 April 2011|access-date=11 October 2011}}</ref> According to a 2005 EC survey, 49% of Croats speak English as the second language, 34% speak German, 14% speak Italian, 10% speak French, 4% speak Russian and 2% speak Spanish. However several large municipalities support [[Minority languages of Croatia|minority languages]]. A majority of Slovenes (59%) have some knowledge of Croatian.<ref name="EBS-243">{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|date=February 2006|title=Europeans and their languages – European commission special barometer FEB2006|publisher=[[European Commission]]|access-date=15 January 2010}}</ref> The country is a part of various language-based international associations, most notably the [[Languages of the European Union|European Union Language Association.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-countries/croatia_en|title=Croatia |date=5 July 2016|website=European Union|publisher=European Commission|language=en|access-date=2 March 2018}}</ref>