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Croatian vs Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
9  
7

National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
Austria  

Second Language
South Africa  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America  
Europe  

Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

Interesting Facts
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
  • 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
German and English Languages  
Serbain and Bosnian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Hallo  
bok  

Thank You
dankjewel  
hvala  

How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?  
kako si  

Good Night
goede Nacht  
laku noć  

Good Evening
goedenavond  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
goedemiddag  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
goedemorgen  
dobro jutro  

Please
alsjeblieft  
molim  

Sorry
sorry  
Oprostite  

Bye
vaarwel  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
Ik hou van jou  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
pardon  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Netherlands  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
590,000.00  
32
660,000.00  
31

Dialect 2
Low Saxon  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Limburgian  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
18
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
38
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
22.00 million  
35
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
25
1.25 million  
36

Native Name
Nederlands  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands  
Hrvatski  

French Name
néerlandais; flamand  
croate  

German Name
Niederländisch  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Dutch people  
Croats  

History

Origin
AD 450-500  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Dutch  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
48  
35
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
nl  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nld  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
dut  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
nld  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mode1257  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
52-ACB-a  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Dutch and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Dutch vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Dutch and Croatian language. History of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500 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 Dutch and Croatian Language History.

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Dutch 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 Dutch and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Croatian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Dutch vs Croatian Difficulty

The Dutch vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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