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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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