Countries
Norway
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Norway
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-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
hallo
  
bok
  
Thank You
takk
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
god natt
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
molim
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
ha det
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Norsk
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
croate
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Croatian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.