Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
- 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
bok
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
لطفا
  
molim
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
فارسی
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
persan
  
croate
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Croats
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Persian 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 Persian and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Croatian language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Persian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian 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 Persian and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.