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Chinese and Croatian


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
9   
7
5   
10

National Language
Austria   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian   
Not Available   

Derived From
Church Slavonic   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30   
12
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
24   
19

How Many Consonants
25   
15
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
bok   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
hvala   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
kako si   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
laku noć   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
dobra večer   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
dobar dan   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
dobro jutro   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
molim   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
Oprostite   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
Doviđenja   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Volim te   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

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

Dialect 2
Chakavian   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Shtokavian   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00   
5
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
79   
33
10   
10

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
89.00 %   
1
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
5.60 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million   
36
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
hrvatski   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Hrvatski   
Not Available   

French Name
croate   
chinois   

German Name
Kroatisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Croats   
Han   

History

Origin
9th century   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
23   
19
1   
1

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

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
hr   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
hrv   
chi   

ISO 639 3
hrv   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
croa1245   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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All Croatian and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Croatian and Chinese Speaking population

Croatian and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Croatian and Chinese on Croatian vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Chinese Language Codes

Croatian and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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