Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
- 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 in
Hmong-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
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
zoo hmo
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
thov
  
molim
  
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Laos
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Hmong
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
hmong
  
croate
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
Croats
  
Origin
19
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
hmv
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
firs1234
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hmong 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 Hmong and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Croatian language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Croatian Difficulty
The Hmong vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong 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 Hmong and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.