Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
bok
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
kako si
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
vänligen
  
molim
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
hej då
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Svenska
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
suédois
  
croate
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Croats
  
Origin
13th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Swedish 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 Swedish and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Croatian language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Croatian Difficulty
The Swedish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish 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 Swedish and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.