Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Austria
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
molim
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Greece
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
croate
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
9th century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic