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Russian vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
4  
11

National Language
Austria  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
bok  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
hvala  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
kako si  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
laku noć  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
molim  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
Doviđenja  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Volim te  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
5
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
hrvatski  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Russki  

French Name
croate  
russe  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Russians  

History

Origin
9th century  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
23  
19
7  
7

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
rus  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
croa1245  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Croatian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Russian language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Croatian and Russian Language History.

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Croatian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Russian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Croatian vs Russian Difficulty

The Croatian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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