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German vs Croatian


Croatian vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
9  
7

National Language
Germany  
Austria  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Serbain and Bosnian  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
9  
1
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
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
bok  

Thank You
Danke  
hvala  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
kako si  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
laku noć  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
dobro jutro  

Please
bitte  
molim  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
Oprostite  

Bye
Tschüs  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
660,000.00  
31

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
1.25 million  
36

Native Name
Deutsch  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Hrvatski  

French Name
allemand  
croate  

German Name
Deutsch  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Croats  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
9  
9
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
deu  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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German and Croatian Language History

Comparison of German vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of German and Croatian language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Croatian Language History.

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

German vs Croatian Difficulty

The German vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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