Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
Austria
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Romanian.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
alo
  
Thank You
hvala
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
molim
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
scuze
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
croate
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Romanians
  
Origin
9th century
  
1521
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Romanian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Croatian and Romanian 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 Romanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Romanian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Romanian word for "Thank You" is multumesc. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Romanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Romanian Difficulty
The Croatian vs Romanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Romanian 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 Romanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Romanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Romanian time required is 24 weeks.