Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Austria
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
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
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
molim
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
South Korea
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
croate
  
coréen
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Koreans
  
Origin
9th century
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Croatian and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Korean language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Korean Difficulty
The Croatian vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.