Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Austria
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
molim
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Russki
  
French Name
croate
  
russe
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Russians
  
Origin
9th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic