Countries
Japan
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Japan
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
- 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
Korean Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
bok
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
molim
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
日本語
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
japonais
  
croate
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Croats
  
Origin
1185
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Japanese and Croatian Speaking population
Japanese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Croatian on Japanese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Japanese and Croatian Language Codes
Japanese and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.