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Croatian vs Javanese


Javanese vs Croatian


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
1  
14

National Language
Austria  
Indonesia  

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

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Not Available  

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.
  
  • The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
bok  
Halo  

Thank You
hvala  
matur nuwun  

How Are You?
kako si  
piye kabare?  

Good Night
laku noć  
wengi sing apik  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
Sugeng sọnten  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
Sugeng siang  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
Sugeng énjing  

Please
molim  
Not Available  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Nyuwun pangapunten  

Bye
Doviđenja  
Kepanggih malih benjang  

I Love You
Volim te  
Kula tresna panjengan  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
Nuwun séwu  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Pekalongan  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Cirebon  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Indonesia  

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Arekan  

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

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

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
16  
15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
82.00 million  
19

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
1.25 %  
13

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
76.00 million  
13

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
Not Available  

Native Name
hrvatski  
basa Jawa  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Djawa, Jawa  

French Name
croate  
javanais  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Javanisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  

History

Origin
9th century  
450 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Indonesian  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Javanese  

Language Position
23  
19
11  
10

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
jv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
jav  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
jav  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
jav  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
croa1245  
java1253  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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Croatian and Javanese Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Javanese language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Javanese language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Javanese language states that this language originated in 450 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 Javanese Language History.

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

Croatian vs Javanese Difficulty

The Croatian vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.

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