Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written 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
Czech Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ahoj
  
bok
  
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Dobrú noc
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Prosím
  
molim
  
Sorry
Pardón!
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Dovidenia
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.20 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
slovenčina
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
slovaque
  
croate
  
German Name
Slowakisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Slovaks
  
Croats
  
Origin
6th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovak
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sk
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slk
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
slo
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
slk
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1269
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Slovak 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 Slovak and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovak and Croatian language. Slovak word for "Hello" is Ahoj or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Slovak Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovak vs Croatian Difficulty
The Slovak vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovak 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 Slovak and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovak and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovak is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.