Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Austria
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
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.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Halo
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
molim
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
croate
  
slovène
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
9th century
  
972-1093
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Slovene
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Croatian and Slovene 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 Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Slovene language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Slovene Difficulty
The Croatian vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Slovene 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 Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.