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Croatian
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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

9
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Austria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok

Thank You

hvala

How Are You?

kako si

Good Night

laku noć

Good Evening

dobra večer

Good Afternoon

dobar dan

Good Morning

dobro jutro

Please

molim

Sorry

Oprostite

Bye

Doviđenja

I Love You

Volim te

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian

Where They Speak

Croatia

How Many People Speak

660,000.00
Rank: 64 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian

Where They Speak

Croatia

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

79
Rank: 33 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %
Rank: 1 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski

Alternative Names

Hrvatski

French Name

croate

German Name

Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Croats

History

Origin

9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

23
Rank: 21 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv

ISO 639 2/B

hrv

ISO 639 3

hrv

ISO 639 6

hrv

Glottocode

croa1245

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic