Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
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 in
Dutch-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
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
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Croatia
  
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
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
89.00 million
  
18
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.