Countries
Czech Republic, European Union
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Czech Republic
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ahoj
  
bok
  
Thank You
děkuji
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Jak se máš?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
dobrou noc
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
dobrý večer
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
dobré ráno
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
prosím
  
molim
  
Sorry
litovat
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
sbohem
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Miluji tě
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
promiňte
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Chod
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Lach
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Moravian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
čeština / český jazyk
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
tchèque
  
croate
  
German Name
Tschechisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Czechs
  
Croats
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Czech
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
cs
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ces
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
cze
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
ces
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
czec1258
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-da
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Czech and Croatian 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 Czech and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Czech and Croatian language. Czech word for "Hello" is ahoj or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Czech Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Czech vs Croatian Difficulty
The Czech vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech Alphabets and Croatian 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 Czech and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.