Are Croatians Slavic or Germanic?

[Permafrost]

Maybe soeone who lives in Istria will Know. But I do Know that majority of Istrians speak fluent Italian as second language and some places with Italian minority that remained have street signs and other stuff written in both Croatian and Italian.

The Italian linguo-cultural elements in Istria are merely a vestige of what they once were, the street signs you are talking about are a mere formality.

Many of the students in the Italian schools are actually children of immigrants from Bosnia who wish for their kids to learn Italian so they can send them to study abroad, and the way they speak it is anything but fluent, although you are right by saying that the (older) population speaks Italian.

But the Venetian colonists are mostly gone, they've been displaced several leagues either west or below ground.

One of my ancestors actually was a Lombard from Varese who settled Koper, although it is such a distant ancestor in my case that it's completely irrelevant.

[Jana]

Many things you say are true. But in modern (Western )Croatia Italian influence still exists, and small minoity that remains is fully respected, living with no trouble at all. It's a good thing. Things of the past are known from both sides. Future looks bright IMO

[Gooding]

Dinarid, Gracile Mediterranid, Pontid, of Illyrian and Dalmatian ancestry mixed with South Slavs.. meh, Slavic. My aunt Elaine is actually married to a proud Croatian whose father was a Serb ( for some reason, he hates the Serbs). He taught me some words.. Luka Noch, Gobra Dan, Ya Bata Soutzka.. words like that.

[Gooding]

ahaha

Laku noč=good night
Dobar dan=good day

this yabata soutzka is too clusterfuck to recognize.. my guess is "Jebala te suza!?" or "Jebote otac"??

Well, it was actually explained to me as a profanity.. suggesting that one go have sex with their female dog in heat.

[Black Wolf]

Germanic and Slavic are in fact linguistic terms!So Croatians are slavic,not germanic.It's a fact!

This.

[Duke]

Dinarid, Gracile Mediterranid, Pontid, of Illyrian and Dalmatian ancestry mixed with South Slavs.. meh, Slavic. My aunt Elaine is actually married to a proud Croatian whose father was a Serb ( for some reason, he hates the Serbs). He taught me some words.. Luka Noch, Gobra Dan, Ya Bata Soutzka.. words like that.

we dont have any illyrian ancestry, we killed them all

[dralos]

we dont have any illyrian ancestry, we killed them all

what about the vlachs???

[Duke]

what about the vlachs???

I guess, but we lack MENA blood of illyrians, maybe if we were conquered by turks, we would have illyrian blood as well

[dralos]

I guess, but we lack MENA blood of illyrians, maybe if were were conquered by turks, we would have illyrian blood as well

well herzegovinians do and dalmats were vlachs there even spoke albanian there so south croatia is super mixed

[Duke]

well herzegovinians do and dalmats were vlachs there even spoke albanian there so south croatia is super mixed

nobody spoke kebab here

also sheeptars are more mixed than we are LOL