# Croatian Translation Services

> Croatian translation services for documents from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization.

https://roxotranslations.com/croatian-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Croatian translation services for documents from Croatia, from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from the Croatian communities abroad, to and from English, Italian, Russian and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Croatian from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Croatian is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Croatian is the official language of Croatia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, since 2013, an official language of the European Union. It is also a recognized minority language in Serbia, Montenegro, Austria, Hungary and Italy, and it has more than 5 million speakers. Emigration took Croatian to the United States, Canada, Chile, Argentina and Australia, and later to Germany and Austria, where many families still need Croatian records. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Croatian, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Croatian consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Croatian language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Croatian that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Croatian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Croatian to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Croatian to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Croatian to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Croatian](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Croatian](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Croatian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Croatian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Croatian translation services for Croatia, Bosnia and the diaspora

Croatian is close to Serbian and Bosnian, and speakers of the three understand each other, but each has its own standard, and documents from Croatia follow their own formats. A good translation follows the language of the original, keeps every letter of the names and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: Croatian uses a Latin alphabet of 30 letters, with č, ć, dž, đ, lj, nj, š and ž, and č and ć are different letters. American documents often drop the marks, so Kovačević becomes Kovacevic. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian: bread is kruh in Croatian and hleb in Serbian, a train is vlak in Croatian and voz in Serbian, and a thousand is tisuća in Croatian and hiljada in Serbian. Croatian is written only in the Latin alphabet, while Serbian also uses Cyrillic, and documents from Bosnia and Herzegovina can come in any of the three languages.
- Names: many surnames end in -ić, and a surname does not change with gender, so Ivan Horvat and Ana Horvat share the same form. In running text names change their ending with grammatical case, so Ivan Horvat can appear as Ivana Horvata, and the translation keeps the name as it is written in the identity fields of the original.
- Dates and numbers: the months have their own Slavic names, so listopad is October and prosinac is December, and dates use periods, so 3. listopada 2026. is October 3, 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a period, so 1.500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents from Croatia: the birth extract (izvadak iz matice rođenih), the marriage extract (izvadak iz matice vjenčanih), the certificate of citizenship (domovnica) and the ID card (osobna iskaznica), which carries the personal identification number (OIB). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Croatian language

Croatian is a South Slavic language, brought to the Adriatic coast by the Slavs who settled there in the 7th century. It has three dialect groups, named after the word each one uses for “what”: Čakavian (ča), Kajkavian (kaj) and Štokavian (što). One of its oldest records is the Baška tablet, a stone carved around the year 1100 on the island of Krk, in the Glagolitic script.

For centuries Croatian was written in three scripts, Glagolitic, Cyrillic and Latin. The first Croatian printed book, a missal in Glagolitic script, came out in 1483, and Marko Marulić wrote the poem Judita in 1501, printed in 1521. In 1595 Faust Vrančić published in Venice a dictionary of five languages, among them Croatian. In the 1830s, Ljudevit Gaj and the Illyrian movement reformed the Latin spelling, with letters such as č, š and ž, and the written standard was built on Štokavian.

In Yugoslavia the language was officially part of Serbo-Croatian. After Croatia became independent in 1991, Croatian became the name of its official language, and on July 1, 2013, when Croatia joined the European Union, it became an official language of the Union. Today Croatian has more than 5 million speakers, in Croatia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the communities abroad.

## We also translate other languages

- [Thai translation](https://roxotranslations.com/thai-translation/)
- [Tagalog translation](https://roxotranslations.com/tagalog-translation/)
- [Punjabi translation](https://roxotranslations.com/punjabi-translation/)
- [Czech translation](https://roxotranslations.com/czech-translation/)
- [Romanian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/romanian-translation/)