Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Austria
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
hvala
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
günaydın
  
Please
molim
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
croate
  
turc
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Turkish
  
Origin
9th century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Croatian and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Turkish language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Turkish Difficulty
The Croatian vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.