Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
91
0
46
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National Language
Austria
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3031
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2526
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bok
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
hvala
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
kako si
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
laku noć
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
dobra večer
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
molim
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Oprostite
жал (žal)
Bye
Doviđenja
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Volim te
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
660,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Debar
Where They Speak
Croatia
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7928
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
hrvatski
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
croate
macédonien
German Name
Kroatisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Croats
Macedonians
Origin
9th century
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Macedonian
Language Position
2345
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hr
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
mac
ISO 639 3
hrv
mkd
ISO 639 6
hrv
mkd
Glottocode
croa1245
mace1250
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic