Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Austria
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
سلام
  
Thank You
hvala
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
molim
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
croate
  
persan
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Persian people
  
Origin
9th century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Croatian and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Persian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Persian Difficulty
The Croatian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.