Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
bok
  
Thank You
Asante
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
tafadhali
  
molim
  
Sorry
pole
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
bye
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Not Available
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
swahili
  
croate
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Croats
  
Origin
6th century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Swahili 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 Swahili and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Croatian language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Croatian Difficulty
The Swahili vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili 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 Swahili and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.