Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Austria
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
English-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
Hello
  
bok
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Please
  
molim
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Bye
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
English
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
anglais
  
croate
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Croats
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic