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Esperanto vs Croatian


Croatian vs Esperanto


Countries

Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
9  
7

National Language
East Asia, European Union  
Austria  

Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America  
Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

Interesting Facts
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
  • 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
Not Available  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32  
14
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
27  
17
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks  
3
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
bok  

Thank You
Dankon  
hvala  

How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?  
kako si  

Good Night
Bonan nokton  
laku noć  

Good Evening
Bonan vesperon  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
Bonan matenon  
dobro jutro  

Please
Mi petas  
molim  

Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!  
Oprostite  

Bye
Ĝis poste  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
Mi amas vin  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
Pardonu!  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
660,000.00  
31

Dialect 2
Not present  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Croatia  

Dialect 3
Not present  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
0  
79  
33

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
0.20 million  
99+
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million  
34
1.25 million  
36

Native Name
Esperanto  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia  
Hrvatski  

French Name
espéranto  
croate  

German Name
Esperanto  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Croats  

History

Origin
1887  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Esperanto  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
Not Available  
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signuno  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
eo  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
epo  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
epo  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
epo  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
espe1235  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
51-AAB-da  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Constructed  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Esperanto and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Esperanto vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Esperanto and Croatian language. History of Esperanto language states that this language originated in 1887 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 Esperanto and Croatian Language History.

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

Esperanto vs Croatian Difficulty

The Esperanto vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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