Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Japan
  
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 in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
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
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
128.00 million
  
14
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)
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.