Language guide

Croatian (hrvatski)

Croatian (hr, hrv) is a world language. Wikidata records about 7M speakers. It is written in Gaj's Latin alphabet. It is an official language in 2 countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Croatian uses Latin script with diacritics (č, ć, đ, š, ž) and differs from Serbian and Bosnian in vocabulary and spelling.

Expect text translated from English into Croatian to grow by roughly 10–25%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.

7M
Speakers
+10…+25%
Text length vs English
$0.07–0.15
Indicative rate / word

Translation guides

Where Croatian is official

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Croatia

Rates for Croatian translation

Croatian falls in our central & eastern european band: roughly $0.07–$0.15 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

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