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
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Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
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
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Not Available
French Name
croate
japonais
German Name
Kroatisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Croats
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
nucl1643
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a
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.