Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
National Language
Austria
  
Portugal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
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.
  
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Olá
  
Thank You
hvala
  
obrigado
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Como você está?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
boa noite
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
boa Noite
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
boa Tarde
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
bom Dia
  
Please
molim
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
pesaroso
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
tchau
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Eu te amo
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
desculpe me
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Brazil
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
European Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Portugal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Daman and Diu
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
231.00 million
  
7
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
216.00 million
  
5
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Português
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Português
  
French Name
croate
  
portugais
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Portugiesisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Origin
9th century
  
3rd Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Medieval Galician
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Portuguese
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Signed Portuguese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
pt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
por
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
por
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
por
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
port1283
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
51-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Croatian and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Portuguese language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Portuguese word for "Thank You" is obrigado. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Portuguese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Portuguese Difficulty
The Croatian vs Portuguese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Portuguese 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 Portuguese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Portuguese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Portuguese time required is 24 weeks.