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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Total No. Of Countries

96
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
German and English Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Hallo

Thank You

hvala
dankjewel

How Are You?

kako si
hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

laku noć
goede Nacht

Good Evening

dobra večer
goedenavond

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
goedemiddag

Good Morning

dobro jutro
goedemorgen

Please

molim
alsjeblieft

Sorry

Oprostite
sorry

Bye

Doviđenja
vaarwel

I Love You

Volim te
Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Gronings

Where They Speak

Croatia
Netherlands

How Many People Speak

660,000.00590,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Croatia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.004,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Limburgian

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

797
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.32 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million22.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Nederlands

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

croate
néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Kroatisch
Niederländisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Croats
Dutch people

History

Origin

9th century
AD 450-500

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Dutch

Language Position

2348
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
nl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
nld

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
dut

ISO 639 3

hrv
nld

ISO 639 6

hrv
nld

Glottocode

croa1245
mode1257

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Croatian and Dutch Alphabets

Croatian and Dutch Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Dutch. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Croatian and Dutch languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Dutch languages. The Croatian phonology consist Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Croatian greetings vs Dutch greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Dutch are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Dutch Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Dutch dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Dutch language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Dutch Dialects are spoken in different Dutch speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Dutch Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Dutch dialects include: Gronings , Low Saxon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Dutch Speaking population

Croatian and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Croatian and Dutch on Croatian vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Dutch Language Codes

Croatian and Dutch language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Dutch Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.