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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

9
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.4 National Language

Austria

1.6 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.8 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.10 Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

1.12 Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

1.13 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.

1.15 Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian

1.17 Derived From

Church Slavonic

3 Alphabets

3.1 Alphabets in

3.4 Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

3.7 Phonology

3.7.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

3.7.4 How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
German
9 60

3.11 Scripts

Latin

3.12 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

3.13 Hard to Learn

3.13.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

5.2.3 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

6 Greetings

6.1 Hello

bok

6.2 Thank You

hvala

6.3 How Are You?

kako si

6.4 Good Night

laku noć

6.5 Good Evening

dobra večer

6.6 Good Afternoon

dobar dan

6.7 Good Morning

dobro jutro

6.8 Please

molim

6.9 Sorry

Oprostite

6.10 Bye

Doviđenja

6.11 I Love You

Volim te

6.12 Excuse Me

Ispričavam se

7 Dialects

7.1 Dialect 1

Chakavian

7.1.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

7.1.2 How Many People Speak

660,000.00
Rank: 31 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

7.3 Dialect 2

Chakavian

7.3.1 Where They Speak

Croatia

7.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

8.3 Dialect 3

Shtokavian

8.3.1 Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

8.3.2 How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

8.5 Total No. Of Dialects

79
Rank: 33 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

9 How Many People Speak

9.1 How Many People Speak?

89.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

10.4 Speaking Population

89.00 %
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

10.5 Native Speakers

5.60 million
Rank: 62 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

11.6.1 Second Language Speakers

1.25 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

11.7.4 Native Name

hrvatski

11.7.5 Alternative Names

Hrvatski

11.7.6 French Name

croate

11.7.7 German Name

Kroatisch

11.8 Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

11.9 Ethnicity

Croats

12 History

12.1 Origin

9th century

12.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

12.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

12.2.2 Branch

Not Available

12.3 Language Forms

12.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

12.3.2 Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

12.3.3 Language Position

23
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

12.3.4 Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language

12.4 Scope

Individual

13 Code

13.1 ISO 639 1

hr

13.2 ISO 639 2

13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

hrv

13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

hrv

13.3 ISO 639 3

hrv

13.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

13.5 Glottocode

croa1245

13.6 Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g

13.7 Types of Language

13.7.1 Language Type

Living

13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of Croatian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Croatian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Croatian language states that it was put to use in 9th century. The history of Croatian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Croatian Language History. Croatian has no early forms. Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian is the standard form of Croatian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Croatian Language.

Croatian population

Croatian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Croatian language. Croatian language is spoken by 89.00 million people in the world. Most of the Croatian population lies in the Croatian Speaking Countries. Croatian language is spoken as first language by 5.60 million people and as second language by about 1.25 million people. Get to know Croatian speaking population in detail.

Croatian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Croatian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Croatian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Croatian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Croatian language

Check out all the information about Croatian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Croatian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Croatian Speaking Countries, Croatian speaking continents and Croatian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Croatian countries knowing common Croatian Greetings will help you in communicating with Croatian people.