Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
France
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
French-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
bonjour
  
bok
  
Thank You
Merci
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
molim
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
français
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
français
  
croate
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Croats
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
French 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 French and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Croatian language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common French Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Croatian Difficulty
The French vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.