Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Chinese.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 (Nín hǎo)
  
bok
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
molim
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
chinois
  
croate
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Croats
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Chinese and Croatian Speaking population
Chinese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Croatian on Chinese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Croatian Language Codes
Chinese and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.