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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

94
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2525
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

hvala
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

kako si
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

laku noć
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

dobra večer
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

molim
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Oprostite
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

Doviđenja
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Volim te
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Croatia
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

660,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Croatia
Serbia

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

793
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Montenegrin

French Name

croate
serbe

German Name

Kroatisch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Croats
Serbs

History

Origin

9th century
11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Serbian

Language Position

2344
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
srp

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
srp

ISO 639 3

hrv
srp

ISO 639 6

hrv
srp

Glottocode

croa1245
serb1264

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Croatian and Serbian Alphabets

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

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

Croatian and Serbian Speaking population

Croatian and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Serbian on Croatian vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Serbian Language Codes

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