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Croatian vs Japanese


Japanese vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia   
Japan   

Total No. Of Countries
9   
7
1   
14

National Language
Austria   
Japan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Pacific   

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania   
Palau   

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics   
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education   

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.
  
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian   
Korean Language   

Derived From
Church Slavonic   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30   
12
99   
40

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
25   
15
14   
4

Scripts
Latin   
Kana   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
bok   
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)   

Thank You
hvala   
ありがとう (Arigatō)   

How Are You?
kako si   
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)   

Good Night
laku noć   
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)   

Good Evening
dobra večer   
こんばんは (Konbanwa)   

Good Afternoon
dobar dan   
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)   

Good Morning
dobro jutro   
おはよう (Ohayō)   

Please
molim   
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)   

Sorry
Oprostite   
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)   

Bye
Doviđenja   
さようなら (Sayōnara)   

I Love You
Volim te   
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)   

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se   
すみません (Sumimasen)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian   
Sanuki   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Kagawa   

How Many People Speak
660,000.00   
31
1,000,000.00   
28

Dialect 2
Chakavian   
Hakata   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Fukuoka   

Dialect 3
Shtokavian   
Kansai   

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

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
79   
33
31   
25

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million   
18
128.00 million   
14

Speaking Population
89.00 %   
1
1.90 %   
10

Native Speakers
5.60 million   
99+
128.00 million   
9

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million   
36
Not Available   

Native Name
hrvatski   
日本語   

Alternative Names
Hrvatski   
Not Available   

French Name
croate   
japonais   

German Name
Kroatisch   
Japanisch   

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]   
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]   

Ethnicity
Croats   
Japanese (Yamato)   

History

Origin
9th century   
1185   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Japonic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian   
Japanese   

Language Position
23   
19
8   
8

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language   
Signed Japanese   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
hr   
ja   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv   
jpn   

ISO 639 2/B
hrv   
jpn   

ISO 639 3
hrv   
jpn   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
croa1245   
nucl1643   

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g   
45-CAA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Croatian and Japanese Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Japanese language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Japanese language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Japanese language states that this language originated in 1185. 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 Japanese Language History.

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

Croatian vs Japanese Difficulty

The Croatian vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.

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