Page 1 of 3 The history of Croatian/Serbian Names and writing
system Croatian/Serbian today by Viv Edwards Croatian/Serbian
are spoken today by almost 20 million people - a little over 10
million in Serbia and Montenegro, almost 5.5 million in Croatia,
1.5 million in Bosnia and a further 3 million scattered across
many other countries. Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the
USA were all popular destinations for Serbian and Croatian
economic migrants in the second half of the twentieth century,
though numbers increased significantly following the political
turmoil of the 1990s.No national statistics are available on the
number or spread of Serbian/Croatian speakers in the UK.
However, a survey of London school children published in 2000
ranked Serbian/Croatian as the thirty-fourth most commonly
spoken language; speakers are concentrated in Kensington and
Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham and Westminster.