Countries
South Africa
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
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
Pan South African Language Board
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  
- 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
Xhosa Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sawubona
  
bok
  
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
unjani
  
kako si
  
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Ngiyacela
  
molim
  
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
bye
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Qwabe
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Ndebele
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
isiZulu
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
zoulou
  
croate
  
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Zulu people
  
Croats
  
Origin
19
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Beatu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
urban Zulu
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zu
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
zul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
zul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
zulu1248
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
  
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
  
Zulu 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 Zulu and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Croatian language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Croatian Difficulty
The Zulu vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu 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 Zulu and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.