Countries
South Africa
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
bok
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
kako si
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
asseblief
  
molim
  
Sorry
jammer
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
croate
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Croats
  
Origin
17th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Croatian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Croatian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Croatian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Croatian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.