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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

94
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3033
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

hvala
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

kako si
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

laku noć
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

dobra večer
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

molim
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Oprostite
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Doviđenja
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Volim te
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Croatia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

660,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Olonets

Where They Speak

Croatia
Olonets

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Novgorod

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7913
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Русский

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Russki

French Name

croate
russe

German Name

Kroatisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Croats
Russians

History

Origin

9th century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Russian

Language Position

237
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
rus

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
rus

ISO 639 3

hrv
rus

ISO 639 6

hrv
rus

Glottocode

croa1245
russ1263

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Croatian and Russian Alphabets

Croatian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Russian. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Croatian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and Russian Speaking population

Croatian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Croatian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Russian Language Codes

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