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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

9
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Austria

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

1.7 Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

1.9 Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian

1.10 Derived From

Church Slavonic

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

bok

3.2 Thank You

hvala

3.3 How Are You?

kako si

3.4 Good Night

laku noć

3.5 Good Evening

dobra večer

3.6 Good Afternoon

dobar dan

3.7 Good Morning

dobro jutro

3.8 Please

molim

3.9 Sorry

Oprostite

3.10 Bye

Doviđenja

3.11 I Love You

Volim te

3.12 Excuse Me

Ispričavam se

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Chakavian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

660,000.00
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Chakavian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Shtokavian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

79
Rank: 33 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

89.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

89.00 %
Rank: 1 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

5.60 million
Rank: 62 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

1.25 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

hrvatski

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Hrvatski

5.3.4 French Name

croate

5.3.5 German Name

Kroatisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Croats

6 History

6.1 Origin

9th century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

6.3.3 Language Position

23
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

hr

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

hrv

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

hrv

7.3 ISO 639 3

hrv

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

croa1245

7.6 Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Croatian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Croatian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Croatian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Croatian. Croatian phonology gives Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 25 consonants in Croatian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Croatian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Croatian language is given in detail in this section.

All Croatian countries

Want to explore all Croatian countries? About Croatian language serves you with all Croatian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Croatian as official language are called as Croatian countries.

  • Countries that use Croatian as their National Language are: Austria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Croatian as second language are: Croatian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Croatian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Croatian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Croatian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Croatian language.Learn Croatian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: bok
  • Thank you: hvala
  • Good Morning: dobro jutro
  • Good Evening: dobra večer
  • Good Afternoon: dobar dan

All Croatian Language Codes

Get to know all Croatian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Croatian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.