Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
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 in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Croatia
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
Native Name
Русский
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Russki
Hrvatski
German Name
Russisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Croats
Origin
1000 AD
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
croa1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
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.