Countries
Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
9
7
6
9
National Language
Austria
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
German and English Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
30
12
26
8
Phonology
How Many Vowels
5
2
6
3
How Many Consonants
25
15
21
11
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
24 weeks
6
Greetings
Hello
bok
Hallo
Thank You
hvala
dankjewel
How Are You?
kako si
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
laku noć
goede Nacht
Good Evening
dobra večer
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
goedemiddag
Good Morning
dobro jutro
goedemorgen
Please
molim
alsjeblieft
Sorry
Oprostite
sorry
Bye
Doviđenja
vaarwel
I Love You
Volim te
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
pardon
Dialects
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Gronings
Where They Speak
Croatia
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
660,000.00
31
590,000.00
32
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Croatia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
4,000,000.00
16
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
5
1,300,000.00
18
Total No. Of Dialects
79
33
7
7
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
18
28.00 million
38
Speaking Population
89.00 %
1
0.32 %
38
Native Speakers
5.60 million
99+
22.00 million
35
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
36
6.00 million
25
Native Name
hrvatski
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
croate
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Kroatisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Croats
Dutch people
History
Origin
9th century
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Dutch
Language Position
23
19
48
35
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
hr
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
nld
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
dut
ISO 639 3
hrv
nld
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
mode1257
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
