Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-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
Halo
  
bok
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Prosim
  
molim
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Not available
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
slovène
  
croate
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Croats
  
Origin
972-1093
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Slovene 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 Slovene and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Croatian language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Croatian Difficulty
The Slovene vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene 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 Slovene and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.