Janjevci (pronounced [ˈjaːɲeʋtsi], Albanian: Janjevët, Croatian: Janjevci), Kosovo Croats (Albanian: Kroatët e Kosovës, Croatian: Kosovski Hrvati) or Janjevci Croats (Croatian: Janjevski Hrvati) are a Croat community in Kosovo, inhabiting the town of Janjevo and surrounding villages near Pristina, as well as villages centered on Letnica near Vitia (Šašare, Vrnez, and Vrnavokolo), who are also known as Letničani. They are not officially recognised as a national minority group.

They are considered among the oldest of the Croatian diaspora communities.

The Janjevci, an ethnic Croat community, derive their name from their traditional community center, Janjevo. It is believed that the community descends from migrating merchants, miners and entrepreneurs from the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik and its hinterland, families Glasnović, Macukić, Ćibarić, Matić, Ivanović), Bosnia and Herzegovina (families Ivanović and Brkić) and Kotor who settled the area in the 14th century medieval Serbia, The earliest written record of Catholics in Janjevo is a letter from Pope Benedict XI, dated 1303, which mentions the Catholic parish of St. Nicholas with its center in Janjevo. Together with the Saxons from Saxony, they worked in the Serbian mines. The Croatian population of Shasharë is believed to be of partial Saxon origin. Stronger national awareness among Janjevci came in the 19th century thanks to the work of the Herzegovinian Franciscan Franjo Brkić and the teacher Jakov Slišković, as well as during the interwar period.

The Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Turkish influences are visible in folk costumes, songs and oral tradition.

Janjevci have several legends related to the origin of Janjevo. The first one describes how in the dilbokoj planini ("deep mountain"), after a general famine, a sister and a brother lived alone, who did not know that they were related to the new Janjevo, while the second story mentions the terrible fate of people after the war and how they are the only ones Jana Palić "Nedokoljka" and one of the Glasnovićs are still alive; both stories are based on massive deaths and suffering during the Mongol invasion of the area.

The costume of adult men consisted of a mixture of oriental and Bulgarian costumes: a šubara on the head, then a shirt, a čakšire (long trousers with a long tour and narrow legs that fasten on the sides), mintan or palta (coat). A belt was tied around the middle of the body, and kondure or jemenije (shoes) were put on the feet.

Women, on the contrary, kept the oriental costume influenced by the Ottomans. Married women wore a fes or otos (a cloth cap sewn from velvet) on their head, and unmarried women wore a kucelj (braid) down their backs. A šamija (scarf) was also put on the head, woolen outside the house, and ordinary inside the house. On the upper part of the body, a mintan or mintanče (jacket) was worn, that is, a jelek or žamadan (vest), under which was a shirt with a lace collar. Women did not wear skirts, but dimije, over which a richly decorated bošča (apron) was draped, and the waist was tied with a kušak (belt). On working days, they wore nalunas (loafers), and when they went out of the house they put on jemenije (shoes) similar to civilian ones. Formal women's clothing was very expensive and colorful, so it was accompanied by appropriate jewelry: dukati, gold necklaces, đinđuves (pearl necklaces), curaće (earrings) and rings. Women's wedding clothing included, in addition to mintančet, dimije, shirts and a fez, a terlik (saffian shoes with ornaments), a duak (veil), earrings, a ring, two rows of rubije (Ducats) as head jewelry and one larger Ducat that went on forehead.

According to Croatian classification, they speak in Janjevo-Lepenica idiom, which belongs to Torlak dialect group.