Countries
South Africa
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
  
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Molo
  
bok
  
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Unjani
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Molo
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Ndicela
  
molim
  
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Thembu
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Hlubi
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
8.20 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million
  
21
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
isiXhosa
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
xhosa
  
croate
  
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Croats
  
Origin
16th 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
isiXhosa
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
xh
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
xho
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
xho
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
xho
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
xhos1239
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
  
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
  
Xhosa 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 Xhosa and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Xhosa and Croatian language. Xhosa word for "Hello" is Molo or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Xhosa Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Xhosa vs Croatian Difficulty
The Xhosa vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Xhosa 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 Xhosa and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Xhosa and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Xhosa is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.