Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
China, Taiwan
Austria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
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Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
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Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
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Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kako si
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
laku noć
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dobar dan
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
dobro jutro
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Oprostite
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Doviđenja
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Volim te
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Chakavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Croatia
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Not Available
Hrvatski
French Name
chinois
croate
German Name
Chinesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Origin
1250 BC
9th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
croa1245
Linguasphere
79-AAA
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Chinese 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 Chinese and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Croatian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Croatian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.