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Croatian and Russian


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   
11
44 weeks   
11

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   
31
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Shtokavian   
Novgorod   

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

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

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   
36
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
Not Available   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
23   
19
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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
croa1245   
russ1263   

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

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
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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