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Croatian
Croatian

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

94
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Habari

Thank You

hvala
Asante

How Are You?

kako si
Habari gani?

Good Night

laku noć
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

dobra večer
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Habari za asubuhi

Please

molim
tafadhali

Sorry

Oprostite
pole

Bye

Doviđenja
bye

I Love You

Volim te
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Croatia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

660,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Croatia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Kimgao

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7912
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

croate
swahili

German Name

Kroatisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Croats
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

9th century
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Swahili

Language Position

2321
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
swa

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
swa

ISO 639 3

hrv
swa

ISO 639 6

hrv
swa

Glottocode

croa1245
swah1254

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Croatian and Swahili Alphabets

Croatian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Swahili. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Croatian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and Swahili Speaking population

Croatian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Croatian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Swahili Language Codes

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