Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Austria
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
molim
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
hrvatski
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
croate
  
chinois
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Han
  
Origin
9th century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
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
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Croatian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Chinese language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Croatian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.