Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Austria
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
How Are You?
kako si
Habari gani?
Good Night
laku noć
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
dobra večer
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
dobro jutro
Habari za asubuhi
I Love You
Volim te
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
Samahani
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Croatia
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Croatia
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
hrvatski
Not Available
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
croate
swahili
German Name
Kroatisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Croats
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
9th century
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Swahili
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
swah1254
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Croatian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Swahili language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Croatian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.