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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

93
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Armenian

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2517
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

hvala
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

kako si
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

laku noć
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

dobra večer
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

dobro jutro
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

molim
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Oprostite
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

Doviđenja
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Volim te
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Croatia
Greece

How Many People Speak

660,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Griko

Where They Speak

Croatia
Italy

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Mariupol

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7925
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

croate
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Kroatisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Croats
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

9th century
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Hellenic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Modern Greek

Language Position

2374
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
ell

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
gre

ISO 639 3

hrv
ell

ISO 639 6

hrv
ells

Glottocode

croa1245
gree1276

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Croatian and Greek Alphabets

Croatian and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Greek. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Croatian and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and Greek Speaking population

Croatian and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Croatian vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Greek Language Codes

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