Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Austria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
molim
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
croate
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Georgians
  
Origin
9th century
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic