Countries
India, Nepal
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
- 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
Hindi
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
bok
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
कृपया
  
molim
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
népalais
  
croate
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Croats
  
Origin
19 BC
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
12
  
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
  
Nepali 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 Nepali and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Croatian language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Croatian Difficulty
The Nepali vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.