Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Hangul
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
bok
  
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
molim
  
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Jeju
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million
  
22
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
coréen
  
croate
  
German Name
Koreanisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Koreans
  
Croats
  
Origin
Before 1st century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Koreanic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ko
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
kor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
Kor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kore1280
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
45-AAA
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Korean 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 Korean and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Croatian language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Croatian Difficulty
The Korean vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean 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 Korean and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.