Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Austria
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Bonjour
  
Please
molim
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
désolé
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
hrvatski
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Français
  
French Name
croate
  
français
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic