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- Glagolitic alphabet
- Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language - Croatian and Serbian alphabets
- Croatia - Languages
- Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language - Writing, pronunciation, and spelling
- Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language - “Serbo-Croatian” in the 20th century and after
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Languages
Which alphabet is traditionally used for Croatian writing?
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The Croatian language is traditionally written using the Latin alphabet.12
While the Glagolitic alphabet was historically used by Croatians for centuries—both for religious service books and secular writing—it was gradually replaced by the Latin script. Today, the use of the Latin alphabet is a key distinction between the Croatian and Serbian variants of the language, as Serbian is traditionally associated with the Cyrillic alphabet. The Latin script used for Croatian is deeply connected to the country's historical ties to Catholicism and Western Europe.3214