Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
94
0
46
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National Language
Austria
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Czech Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3046
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2538
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bok
Ahoj
Thank You
hvala
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
kako si
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
laku noć
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
dobra večer
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
dobro jutro
Dobré ráno
Please
molim
Prosím
Sorry
Oprostite
Pardón!
Bye
Doviđenja
Dovidenia
I Love You
Volim te
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Croatia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
660,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Croatia
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
794
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
hrvatski
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
croate
slovaque
German Name
Kroatisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Croats
Slovaks
Origin
9th century
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Language Position
2327
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hr
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
slk
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
slo
ISO 639 3
hrv
slk
ISO 639 6
hrv
slk
Glottocode
croa1245
slov1269
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic