Croatia Languages: Difference between revisions

<h3> Languages of the Records  </h3>

<p>The language of the records is mostly Latin, Croatian, Hungarian, or Italian. Glagolitic and Cyrillic as well as Roman script occur in the records.  

<ul><li><b>Latin</b>: an Indo-European language, moderately inflected, and used extensively by the Roman Catholic Church.  

</li><li><b>Serbian</b>: a Slavic language closely allied to Croatian. Considered the official language of Yugoslavia. Serbian differs from Croatian slightly in vocabulary and is written in the Cyrillic script.  

</li><li><b>German</b>: official language of the Austrian Empire, and as such the language of record for the Austrian military.  

</li><li><b>Glagolitic</b>: properly speaking, Glagolitsa is a script, not a language. The literature of Dalmatia, however, took on a unique character that can be considered at least a dialect. In most circumstances one can read the text of a Glagolitic manuscript if s/he is familiar with Croatian and the epigraphy.  

</li><li><b>Croatian</b>: the language used for most post-Latin period Roman Catholic parish registers. Distinguished from Serbian primarily for reasons of nationalism.  

</li><li><b>Hungarian</b>: all civil documents, from partition of Austria-Hungary to end of WWI.  

</li><li><b>Italian</b>: language common to the 1600-1800. Roman Catholic parish registers for Dalmatia and Istria.  

</li><li><b>Slovene</b>: language of Slovenia, closely allied with Serbo-Croatian.

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