Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Norway
National Language
Austria
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Not Available
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
kako si
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
laku noć
god natt
Good Evening
dobra večer
god kveld
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
dobro jutro
god morgen
Please
molim
Vær så snill
I Love You
Volim te
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Croatia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sogn
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
hrvatski
Norsk
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Norsk
French Name
croate
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kroatisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Croats
Norwegians
Origin
9th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Croatian and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Norwegian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Croatian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.