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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
9   
7

National Language
Russia   
Austria   

Second Language
Afganistan   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania   

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics   

Interesting Facts
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
  • 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   
Serbain and Bosnian   

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   
Church Slavonic   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33   
15
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
25   
15

Scripts
Cyrillic   
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   
bok   

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)   
hvala   

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   
kako si   

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   
laku noć   

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   
dobra večer   

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   
dobar dan   

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   
dobro jutro   

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   
molim   

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)   
Oprostite   

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)   
Doviđenja   

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   
Volim te   

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)   
Ispričavam se   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Chakavian   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Croatia   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
660,000.00   
31

Dialect 2
Olonets   
Chakavian   

Where They Speak
Olonets   
Croatia   

Dialect 3
Novgorod   
Shtokavian   

Where They Speak
Novgorod   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
13,000,000.00   
5

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
79   
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
89.00 million   
18

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
89.00 %   
1

Native Speakers
166.00 million   
8
5.60 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million   
7
1.25 million   
36

Native Name
Русский   
hrvatski   

Alternative Names
Russki   
Hrvatski   

French Name
russe   
croate   

German Name
Russisch   
Kroatisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]   

Ethnicity
Russians   
Croats   

History

Origin
1000 AD   
9th century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Not Available   

Branch
Eastern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Russian   
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian   

Language Position
7   
7
23   
19

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Croatian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ru   
hr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus   
hrv   

ISO 639 2/B
rus   
hrv   

ISO 639 3
rus   
hrv   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
russ1263   
croa1245   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea   
part of 53-AAA-g   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Russian and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Croatian language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD 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 Russian and Croatian Language History.

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

Russian vs Croatian Difficulty

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

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