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Countries

Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
10  
6
9  
7

National Language
Portugal  
Austria  

Second Language
United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America  
Europe  

Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

Interesting Facts
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
  • 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
Spanish and Galician Languages  
Serbain and Bosnian  

Derived From
Latin  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
23  
5
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
19  
9
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Olá  
bok  

Thank You
obrigado  
hvala  

How Are You?
Como você está?  
kako si  

Good Night
boa noite  
laku noć  

Good Evening
boa Noite  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
boa Tarde  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
bom Dia  
dobro jutro  

Please
Por Favor  
molim  

Sorry
pesaroso  
Oprostite  

Bye
tchau  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
Eu te amo  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
desculpe me  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Brazil  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00  
4
660,000.00  
31

Dialect 2
European Portuguese  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Portugal  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00  
9
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
Daman and Diu  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
4,000.00  
36
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
231.00 million  
7
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
3.27 %  
7
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
216.00 million  
5
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million  
18
1.25 million  
36

Native Name
Português  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Português  
Hrvatski  

French Name
portugais  
croate  

German Name
Portugiesisch  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses  
Croats  

History

Origin
3rd Century  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Medieval Galician  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Portuguese  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
6  
6
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
pt  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
por  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
por  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
por  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
port1283  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-a  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Portuguese and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Portuguese vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Portuguese and Croatian language. History of Portuguese language states that this language originated in 3rd Century 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 Portuguese and Croatian Language History.

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Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Croatian language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Portuguese vs Croatian Difficulty

The Portuguese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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