Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
95
0
46
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National Language
Austria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2523
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
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bok
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
hvala
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kako si
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
laku noć
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
dobra večer
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
molim
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Doviđenja
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
660,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Wu
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Yue
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7910
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
hrvatski
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
croate
chinois
German Name
Kroatisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Croats
Han
Origin
9th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hr
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
zho
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
chi
ISO 639 3
hrv
zho
ISO 639 6
hrv
zho
Glottocode
croa1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating