Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
National Language
Austria
  
France, Spain
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
  
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Spanish
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Kaixo
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Eskerrik asko
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Zer moduz?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Gabon
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Egun on
  
Please
molim
  
Mesedez
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Barkatu
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Agur
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Maite zaitut
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Barkatu
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
France
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Souletin
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
France, Soule, Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Biscayan
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Spain
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
7.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
French Name
croate
  
basque
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Baskisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Basque people
  
Origin
9th century
  
c. 1000
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Vasconic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Basque
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
eu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
eus
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
baq
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
eus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
basq1248
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
40-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Croatian and Basque 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 Basque greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Basque language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Basque word for "Thank You" is Eskerrik asko. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Basque Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Basque Difficulty
The Croatian vs Basque difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Basque 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 Basque are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Basque, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Basque time required is 88 weeks.