Are Croats a slavic people?

I grew up close to Croatia.

a kind of oddball Romance language.

Mine certainly are.

perfection. you haz posted it.

She immigrated from Slovakia but back then it was Austria-Hungary. Not sure if it was the same thing you are referring to.

Among them are Polish, Czech, Slovak, and the Croatian half of Serbo-Croat. It seems to have a lot to do with which side of the Roman Catholic/Orthodox schism the language group on when they first started to write things down. Roman Catholics used the Latin alphabet, Orthodox the Cyrillic.

Slavic Europe is a region of Europe where Slavic languages are spoken. This area is situated in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and includes the nations of Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine . In the disputed territories of Transnistria and Kosovo, often claim by Slavophiles, the main languages in use daily by the inhabitants are Romanian and Albanian respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_Europe

darnnit!

This was many years ago when I was practicing workers' comp in California. I asked her about Croatians as I was curious about where they fitted in to Europe. To the best of my recollection, she said Croats spoke a Slavic tongue but were absolutely not Slavs and even resented the notion. She said they were closer to Germanics and were Goths as far as blood is concerned.

I believe Hitler hated Slavs and considered Croats part of the Reich, with Germanic origins, like Estonians (although I'm not suggesting Hitler's racial notions were valid or reality-based).