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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

97
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

259
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
hallo

Thank You

hvala
Danke

How Are You?

kako si
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

laku noć
gute Nacht

Good Evening

dobra večer
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
guten Tag

Good Morning

dobro jutro
guten Morgen

Please

molim
bitte

Sorry

Oprostite
Verzeihung

Bye

Doviđenja
Tschüs

I Love You

Volim te
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Croatia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

660,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Croatia
Germany

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Texas

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7928
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

croate
allemand

German Name

Kroatisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Croats
Germans

History

Origin

9th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

239
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
deu

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
ger

ISO 639 3

hrv
deu

ISO 639 6

hrv
deus

Glottocode

croa1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Croatian and German Alphabets

Croatian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and German. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Croatian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and German Speaking population

Croatian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Croatian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and German Language Codes

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