Reception of the Croatian Orthography Published by the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Sa？etak Along with several other orthographic manuals used at the time, in 2013 another orthographic manual appeared on the Croatian orthographic scene – the Croatian Orthography of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics. According to some authors, this Orthography has not fulfilled its original purpose to resolve numerous orthographic dilemmas. Instead, it has brought additional confusion into the already orthographically confounded general public. This paper will therefore discuss the public consultation about the Croatian Orthography of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics and reactions of the profession and of the relevant institutions. (The consultation resulted in 396 comments that can be found in the internet; this paper mentions only some of the most topical comments, e.g. those on the writing of the forms and of possessive adjectives derived from foreign common nouns and proper names, on omission of sounds, etc.