Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
91
0
46
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National Language
Austria
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Palau
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Korean Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3099
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2514
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
bok
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
hvala
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
kako si
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
laku noć
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
dobra večer
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
molim
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Oprostite
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Doviđenja
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Volim te
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Croatia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
660,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Croatia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
kansai
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7931
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
hrvatski
日本語
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Nihongo
French Name
croate
japonais
German Name
Kroatisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Croats
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
9th century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Japanese
Language Position
238
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hr
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
jpn
ISO 639 3
hrv
jpn
ISO 639 6
hrv
jpn
Glottocode
croa1245
nucl1643
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic