Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Austria
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
bok
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
molim
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
croate
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
9th century
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Croatian and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Croatian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Abkhaz language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Croatian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Croatian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.