Demographics of Croatia
Croatian replaced Latin as the official language of the Croatian government in 1847. The Croatian lect is generally viewed as one of the three standard varieties of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language. Croatian is written using the Latin alphabet and there are three major dialects spoken on the territory of Croatia, with the Shtokavian idiom used as the literary standard. The Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects are distinguished by their lexicon, phonology, and syntax.
Bartol Kašić
Kašić called the language used in "Ritual rimski" as "naški" ("our language") or "bosanski" ("Bosnian"). He used the term "Bosnian" even though he was born in a Chakavian region: instead he decided to adopt a "common language" ("lingua communis"), a version of Shtokavian Ikavian, spoken by the majority the speakers of Serbo-Croatian. He used the terms "dubrovački" (from Dubrovnik) for the Ijekavian version used in his Bible, and "dalmatinski" (Dalmatian) for the Chakavian version.In Croatian: