Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
92
0
46
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National Language
Austria
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Chinese Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bok
您好
Thank You
hvala
谢谢
How Are You?
kako si
你好吗？
Good Night
laku noć
晚安
Good Evening
dobra večer
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
下午好
Good Morning
dobro jutro
早上好
Please
molim
请
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾
Bye
Doviđenja
再见
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
原谅我
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Croatia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
660,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Croatia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
793
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
hrvatski
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
croate
cantonais
German Name
Kroatisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Croats
Han Chinese
Origin
9th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
hr
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
yue
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
yue
ISO 639 3
hrv
No data available
ISO 639 6
hrv
yue
Glottocode
croa1245
cant1236
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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