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Czech vs Croatian


Croatian vs Czech


Countries

Countries
Czech Republic, European Union  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
9  
7

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

Alphabets in
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
42  
22
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32  
21
5  
2

How Many Consonants
32  
22
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chod  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
660,000.00  
31

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
108,000.00  
27
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million  
99+
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.15 %  
99+
89.00 %  
1

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  

History

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  

Language Position
73  
99+
23  
19

Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Czech and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Czech vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Czech and Croatian language. History of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Czech and Croatian Language History.

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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.

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