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Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries
9 7

National Language
Austria

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Europe

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Interesting Facts
  • 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
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
bok

Thank You
hvala

How Are You?
kako si

Good Night
laku noć

Good Evening
dobra večer

Good Afternoon
dobar dan

Good Morning
dobro jutro

Please
molim

Sorry
Oprostite

Bye
Doviđenja

I Love You
Volim te

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
660,000.00 64

Dialect 2
Chakavian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00 46

Dialect 3
Shtokavian

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00 28

Total No. Of Dialects
79 33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million 18

Speaking Population
89.00 % 1

Native Speakers
5.60 million 62

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million 60

Native Name
hrvatski

Alternative Names
Hrvatski

French Name
croate

German Name
Kroatisch

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity
Croats

History

Origin
9th century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position
23 21

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
hrv

ISO 639 2/B
hrv

ISO 639 3
hrv

ISO 639 6
hrv

Glottocode
croa1245

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in Croatian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Croatian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Croatian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Croatian. Croatian phonology gives Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 25 consonants in Croatian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Croatian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Croatian language is given in detail in this section.

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All Croatian countries

Want to explore all Croatian countries? About Croatian language serves you with all Croatian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Croatian as official language are called as Croatian countries.

  • Countries that use Croatian as their National Language are: Austria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Croatian as second language are: Croatian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Croatian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Croatian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Croatian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Croatian language.Learn Croatian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: bok
  • Thank you: hvala
  • Good Morning: dobro jutro
  • Good Evening: dobra večer
  • Good Afternoon: dobar dan

All Croatian Language Codes

Get to know all Croatian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Croatian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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