Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Austria
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
hallo
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
goeie more
  
Please
molim
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
jammer
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
croate
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
9th century
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Croatian and Afrikaans Speaking population
Croatian and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. 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 Croatian and Afrikaans on Croatian vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Croatian and Afrikaans Language Codes
Croatian and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.