Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Not Available
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
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Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
kako si
Good Night
تصبح على خير
laku noć
Good Evening
مساء الخير
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
dobar dan
Good Morning
صباح الخير
dobro jutro
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Sudan
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Hrvatski
German Name
Arabisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Origin
512 CE
9th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
croa1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Arabic 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 Arabic and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Croatian language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Croatian Difficulty
The Arabic vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.