Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Austria
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
molim
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
croate
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
9th century
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Slovak
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Croatian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Slovak language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Croatian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.