Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
National Language
Austria
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Dutch Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
kako si
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
laku noć
goeie nag
Good Evening
dobra večer
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
Goeie middag
Good Morning
dobro jutro
goeie more
Bye
Doviđenja
Not Available
I Love You
Volim te
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Croatia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Croatia
Not Available
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Namibia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
hrvatski
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Cape Dutch
French Name
croate
afrikaans
German Name
Kroatisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Croats
Afrikaners
Origin
9th century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
Glottocode
croa1245
afri1274
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
Croatian and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Afrikaans language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Croatian vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.