Croatian language
Croatian (; "" ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language used by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighboring countries. It is the official and literary standard of Croatia and one of the official languages of the European Union. Croatian is also one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a recognized minority language in Serbia, and neighboring countries.
Jakov Mikalja
It was the first Croatian dictionary, with Croatian (under name of "Illyric" or "Slovinian") as the starting language (in the very same dictionary, he treats the terms Croatian, Slovinian and Illyric as synonyms ). An Important thing to note is that Micaglia names in his dictionary Croatian language as ""Illyric"" or "Slovinian", Italian as ""Latin"", which he names as the ""students' language"" (diacki). The introduction to the dictionary has a "Latin" dedication, a note to the reader in Italian ("Al benigno lettore"), a presentation of the alphabet and orthography in Latin and Croatian ("Od ortographie jezika slovinskoga ili načina od pisanja"), and an Italian grammar in Croatian ("Grammatika Talianska").