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Croatian Language



Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
9 7

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
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 64

Dialect 2
Chakavian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00 46

Dialect 3
Shtokavian

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00 28

Total No. Of Dialects
79 33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million 18

Speaking Population
89.00 % 1

Native Speakers
5.60 million 62

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million 60

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 21

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

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Origin of Croatian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Croatian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Croatian language states that it was put to use in 9th century. The history of Croatian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Croatian Language History. Croatian has no early forms. Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian is the standard form of Croatian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Croatian Language.

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Croatian population

Croatian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Croatian language. Croatian language is spoken by 89.00 million people in the world. Most of the Croatian population lies in the Croatian Speaking Countries. Croatian language is spoken as first language by 5.60 million people and as second language by about 1.25 million people. Get to know Croatian speaking population in detail.

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Croatian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Croatian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Croatian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Croatian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Croatian language

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