Prin biografiile lingvistice am descris situația lingvistică a locuitorilor din Carașova și Clocotici, două sate croate din România. Descoperând identitățile lor lingvistice, am aflat detalii legate de limba actuală a minorității croate. Am observat comutare de cod și interferență lingvistică între graiul carașovean, limba croată literară și limba română literară; adaptare la interlocutor (român, croat, carașovean etc.) și identificația cu grupul dorit care au exprimat prin alegerea cuvintelor concrete. Mulțumită acestor fenomene ne-au arătat identitatea lor carașoveană, croată ca și cea română.

Thanks to their unique language and Roman catholic faith, the Krashovani are the most numerous group of Croatian minority in Romanian Banat. They live in two localities, respectively in communes of Carașova and Lupac where they inhabit seven villages. Although they do not know the history of their society, they share a local dialect, Carașova Croatian, but also local identity which is related to Croatia and Romania. This master’s thesis shows the contact between identity and foreign languages, respectively between identity and Carașova Croatian, Croatian and Romanian language as a result of language biographies of four inhabitants of Carașova and four more inhabitants of Clocotici. The relationship of identity and language codes is visible in the communication process which is facing two situations. One of them is family interaction, conversations with other members of the minority in local institutions, at mass, school etc., while the second situation is connected to use of Romanian and Croatian standard language. In six of seven villages language prestige represents Carașova Croatian, the exception is the village Iabalcea where Romanian language is more prevalent than Croatian dialect. This is the reason why Krashovani not only express their multiple linguistic identity using code-mixing or code-switching, but they can also modify their language choice with speech accommodation which leads to identification with the desired group. These linguistic characteristics reflect and in the same time are made by the individual’s language choice.