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Croatian vs German


German vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
7  
8

National Language
Austria  
Germany  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
9  
1

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
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
bok  
hallo  

Thank You
hvala  
Danke  

How Are You?
kako si  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
laku noć  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
guten Morgen  

Please
molim  
bitte  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Verzeihung  

Bye
Doviđenja  
Tschüs  

I Love You
Volim te  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
5
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
hrvatski  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
croate  
allemand  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Germans  

History

Origin
9th century  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
23  
19
9  
9

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
ger  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
croa1245  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Croatian and German Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and German language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Croatian and German Language History.

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Croatian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and German language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Croatian vs German Difficulty

The Croatian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.

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