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Bosniaks of Croatia (Bosnian and Croatian: Bošnjaci u Hrvatskoj) are one of the ethnic minorities of the Republic of Croatia.According to the 2021 Croatian census, there were 24,131 Bosniaks, or 0.62% of the total population, making them the third largest ethnic group in the country after Croats and Serbs.
Ethnic map of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to 2013 census. More than 96% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three autochthonous constituent peoples (Serbo-Croatian: konstitutivni narodi / конститутивни народи): Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.
Yugoslav Sign Language is used with Croatian and Serbian variants. [citation needed] According to the results of the 2013 census, 52.86% of the population consider their mother tongue to be Bosnian, 30.76% Serbian, 14.6% Croatian and 1.57% another language, with 0.21% not giving an answer. [39]
Due to expulsions and (forced) assimilation after the two World wars, the number of ethnic Germans in Bosnia and Herzegovina was drastically diminished. [174] In the 2013 census, 52.86% of the population consider their mother tongue Bosnian, 30.76% Serbian, 14.6% Croatian and 1.57% another language, with 0.21% not giving an answer. [2]
The Croatian language is official in Croatia, the European Union [56] and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [57] Croatian is a recognized minority language within Croatian autochthonous communities and minorities in Montenegro, Austria , Italy , Romania (Carașova, Lupac) and Serbia .
Coronation of King Tomislav, painted by Oton Iveković. Croats settled the areas of modern Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 7th century. [3] [4] [5] Constantine VII in De Administrando Imperio writes that Croats settled Dalmatia and from there they settled Illyricum and Pannonia [6] There, they assimilated with native Illyrians and Romans during the great migration of the Slavs.
The Bosniaks (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, pronounced [boʃɲǎːtsi]; singular masculine: Bošnjak [bǒʃɲaːk], feminine: Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, [14] which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language.
Croatian is the official language of Croatia, and one of 24 official languages of the European Union since 2013. [39] [96] 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 legislation mandates their use.