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Russian and Croatian


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
4  
11

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
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

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
660,000.00  
99+
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00  
99+
154,000,000.00  
2

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
154,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
99+
110.00 million  
7

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
23  
21
7  
7

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  

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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.

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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.

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