Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Italian-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
ciao
  
bok
  
Thank You
grazie
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Per Favore
  
molim
  
Sorry
scusate
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Italiano
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
italien
  
croate
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Croats
  
Origin
960 BC
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
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
  
Italian 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 Italian and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Croatian language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Italian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Italian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian 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 Italian and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.