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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
European Union, Slovenia

Total No. Of Countries

92
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia

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
Austria, Hungary, Italy

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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.
  • The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Serbo-Croatian

Derived From

Church Slavonic
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3025
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2520
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Halo

Thank You

hvala
Hvala

How Are You?

kako si
Kako se imate?

Good Night

laku noć
Lahko noč

Good Evening

dobra večer
Dober večer

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Dober dan

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Dobro jutro

Please

molim
Prosim

Sorry

Oprostite
Oprostite

Bye

Doviđenja
Nasvidenje

I Love You

Volim te
Ljubim te

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Oprostite

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Prekmurje Slovene

Where They Speak

Croatia
Hungary, Slovenia

How Many People Speak

660,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Resian

Where They Speak

Croatia
Italy

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.002,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Styrian

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7948
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million2.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million2.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Slovenščina

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Slovenian, Slovenscina

French Name

croate
slovène

German Name

Kroatisch
Slowenisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]

Ethnicity

Croats
Slovenes

History

Origin

9th century
972-1093

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
Slovene

Language Position

2328
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
sl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
slv

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
slv

ISO 639 3

hrv
slv

ISO 639 6

hrv
slv

Glottocode

croa1245
slov1268

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

Croatian and Slovene Alphabets

Croatian and Slovene Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Slovene. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Slovene Alphabets there are 25 letters. To learn Croatian and Slovene languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Slovene 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 Slovene greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Slovene are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and Slovene Speaking population

Croatian and Slovene speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Slovene languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Slovene Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovene language is 0.03 %. 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 Slovene on Croatian vs Slovene where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Slovene Language Codes

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