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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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