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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

92
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3029
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2513
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Moi

Thank You

hvala
Kiitos

How Are You?

kako si
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

laku noć
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

dobra večer
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Hyvää huomenta

Please

molim
haluta

Sorry

Oprostite
Anteeksi

Bye

Doviđenja
Heippa

I Love You

Volim te
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Croatia
Finland

How Many People Speak

660,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Rauma

Where They Speak

Croatia
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7921
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Suomi

French Name

croate
finnois

German Name

Kroatisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Croats
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

9th century
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
standard Finnish

Language Position

2322
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
fin

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
fin

ISO 639 3

hrv
fin

ISO 639 6

hrv
fin

Glottocode

croa1245
finn1318

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Croatian and Finnish Alphabets

Croatian and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Finnish. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Croatian and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Finnish 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 Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Finnish Speaking population

Croatian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Croatian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Finnish Language Codes

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