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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

91
0 46
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National Language

Austria
South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

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
Pan South African Language Board

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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Xhosa Language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3057
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2550
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Sawubona

Thank You

hvala
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

kako si
unjani

Good Night

laku noć
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

dobra večer
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

dobro jutro
okuhle ekuseni

Please

molim
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Oprostite
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Doviđenja
bye

I Love You

Volim te
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Croatia
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

660,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Croatia
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Ndebele

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

794
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

croate
zoulou

German Name

Kroatisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Croats
Zulu people

History

Origin

9th century
19

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Deep Zulu

Language Position

2387
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
zul

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
zul

ISO 639 3

hrv
zul

ISO 639 6

hrv
zul

Glottocode

croa1245
zulu1248

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
99-AUT-fg

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 Zulu Alphabets

Croatian and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Zulu. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Croatian and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Zulu 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 Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Croatian and Zulu Speaking population

Croatian and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. 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 Zulu on Croatian vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Zulu Language Codes

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