Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Austria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
molim
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
croate
  
kurde
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Kurds
  
Origin
9th century
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Croatian and Kurdish Speaking population
Croatian and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. 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 Kurdish on Croatian vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Croatian and Kurdish Language Codes
Croatian and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.