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Chinese vs Croatian


Croatian vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
9  
7

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

Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
25  
15

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
660,000.00  
31

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

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
89.00 %  
1

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  

History

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  

Language Position
1  
1
23  
19

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Chinese and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Croatian language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Croatian Language History.

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Chinese 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 Chinese and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Croatian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Croatian Difficulty

The Chinese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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