Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-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
Merhaba
  
bok
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
lütfen
  
molim
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Türkçe
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
turc
  
croate
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Turkish 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 Turkish and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Croatian language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Croatian Difficulty
The Turkish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish 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 Turkish and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.