Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Austria
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
molim
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
croate
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Croatian and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Bulgarian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Croatian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.