Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
bok
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
晚安
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
请
  
molim
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
再见
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
Not Available
  
croate
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Croats
  
Origin
17th century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Croatian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Croatian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.