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Nepali vs Croatian


Croatian vs Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
9  
7

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

Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
48  
28
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
5  
2

How Many Consonants
36  
26
25  
15

Scripts
Devanagari  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
790,000.00  
30
660,000.00  
31

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

Total No. Of Dialects
12  
12
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million  
36
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.25 %  
99+
89.00 %  
1

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  

History

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  

Language Position
59  
99+
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Nepali and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Nepali vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Nepali and Croatian language. History of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Nepali and Croatian Language History.

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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.

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