Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- 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
Spanish
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
bok
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Mesedez
  
molim
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Agur
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Not available
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
basque
  
croate
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Basque 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 Basque and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Basque and Croatian language. Basque word for "Hello" is Kaixo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Basque Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Basque vs Croatian Difficulty
The Basque vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Basque 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 Basque and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Basque and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Basque is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.